
There is no “separation between work and play” for Gen Z because social media allows them to post everything online, and that information can be used against them by employers, said economist and academic Yanis Varoufakis, a former Greek finance minister.
“If you are an upper middle-class kid and you have aspirations for life, you know that every video you upload on TikTok, everything you write on Twitter, everything you put on Facebook is going to be thrown at you during a job interview,” he said in an interview with Fortune that Business Insider reported on.
That lack of separation “really poisons [the generation’s] way of relating to one another because even [that] is going to become part of their CV,” he said. He added that Gen Z is an “alienated” group because of how social media has shaped their lives.
Professor Ben Voyer of Europe-based ECSP Business School agreed. Social media has created a “boundary-less universe” between people’s professional and personal lives, he previously told Business Insider.
Voyer suggested that job applicants wipe the slate clean by deleting phases of social media from before graduation in order to prevent something unfortunate from being discovered by a potential employer. He also warned applicants to be careful about posting anything political, as “veering too much into politics is probably something that could backfire."