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This Company Will Help Job Seekers Erase Unseemly Facebook Photos
 






June 22, 2014
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Pretend your frat-star days never existed — at least on the Internet — with Social Sweepster
By the time this year’s college graduates grab their diplomas, they’ll likely have heard countless warnings about what not to post on social media.
But in case they never listened—and are only just starting to grasp what four years of keg stands and Solo cups might do to their employment prospects—Social Sweepster wants to help. The service goes through Facebook and Twitter accounts to find photos and posts that might make hiring managers think twice, the New York Times reports.
Similar services include SimpleWash, which searches profiles for “undesirable content” based on certain keywords, and Socially Clean, which identifies regrettable Facebook posts on both users’ profiles and those left on their friends’ profiles.
But Social Sweepster, founded by a 2013 graduate of Indiana University, has an emphasis on scanning images, looking through postings from as far back as 2005 to identify objects like beer cans and red Solo cups. Once those are found, users have options to untag, delete or ask a friend to remove the offending photos.
The image identification technology isn’t perfect yet, but founder Tom McGrath believes young job seekers, wanting to be safe rather than sorry, will still want to pay for the service, which is currently in beta.
“If you spent all this money on a college education and you’ll spend $5 on a coffee, why not prevent the slightest chance that a potential employer will be upset?” he said.


 


 









MOBILE PHONES VOCABULARY



A top-up card: tarjeta recargable.
Call rate: tarifa de llamada telefónica.
Personal organiser: agenda personal.
Rechargeable batteries: baterías recargables.
Mobile operators: operadoras telefónicas.
Call waiting: llamada en espera.
Contacts / phone book: guía.
Call forwarding: desvio de llamada
Connection fee: establecimiento de llamada
Flat rate: tarifa plana.
Flip phone: móvil que se abre levantando la tapa.
Hands-free set / kit: manos libres.
Hash key: almohadilla.
Inbox: Buzón de entrada.
Keypad: teclado numérico.
Keys / buttons: teclas.
Missed call: llamada perdida.
To run out of minutes; not to have any minutes on one’s mobile phone; to run out of credit to call: no tener saldo
Outbox: buzón de salida.
Phone charger: cargador de batería.
Ring tone: tono de llamada.
Screen: pantalla
Service provider: operadora telefónica; compañía telefónica (Orange, Movistar, etc.)
Silent: en silencio
Slide phone: móvil que se abre deslizando la tapa.
There’s no signal / reception: no hay cobertura.
To be cutting out / breaking up: se va el sonido, la voz; se corta la conversación
To dial: marcar.
To hang up: colgar.
To jailbreak / to unlock a mobile phone: liberar un móvil.
To give sby a ring: dar un toque.
Voicemail: buzón de voz.







MOBILE QUESTIONS  
1. How many mobile phones are there in your family?
2. What factors may affect you most when buying a mobile phone: its function, its design, its price, others? 3. How important are the following factors in choosing a mobile phone operator?
• Network coverage.
• Price.
• Family’s operator.
• Reliability.
• Others.
4. Do you use pre-paid cards or do you have a long term contract? 5. Are mobiles easy to use? Are they useful? What do use your mobile mainly for? 6. Do we make a good use of mobiles? What benefits can derive from using a mobile phone? What problems have you ever experienced in your use of mobile phones? 7. Are there any circumstances or situations when you cannot stand mobiles ringing? 8. What do you think of people speaking on their mobiles in the cinema? On the bus? At the bus stop? 9. What is the funniest ring tone you have ever heard? 10. Do you know how to add phone numbers, write and read text messages, send them and erase them? 11. How often do you use SMS (short messages)? 12. Do you use the voicemail? 13. Are mobile phone calls cheap or expensive? 14. Do you restrict (or try to restrict) your mobile phone use and spending? 15. Do you think landline phones (home phones) may one day disappear? 16. Why is it so difficult for older people to learn how to use mobiles?     

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