Potential employees are discovering the cost of their online behavior.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

According to the economists, quote,

the rise of the online self means the employer's eye can travel,

pass your desk, past your office, into your home family,

even through ill-judged social media post, your most intimate thoughts.

Today, companies wield the sort of spy power less commonly associated

with directors than with dictators, even deities. Now, of course, none of this should come as a surprise,

our most intimate thoughts on online until someone chooses to put them there. Still, that some believe

there should be a kind of immunity for bad behavior online just points to a truth about

technology. Our tools shape us. For example, studies show that negativity spreads more quickly and

easily than positivity online. What we never say to someone's face, we'll put on Twitter,

what we never say about a neighbor, we'll post on next door. But we aren't two people. So the best advice for

Christians, online or off, is to let your speech always be gracious, season with salt,

so that you may know how you ought to answer. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with

The Point.