If you search “fired over a Tweet” on Google, you get more than 30 million hits. It turns out that there are things you just shouldn’t post on social media.
Indeed, the costs of a social media screw up can be high. Trouble with your boss. Legal fees. A public shaming.
There’s a new best-selling book about social media missteps with disastrous consequences called “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed.” Author Jon Ronson met with recipients of high-profile public shamings. “The shamed are people like us, people who say make a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work,” according to publicity materials for the book. “Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they’re being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job. A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people’s faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control.”…
Don’t Post That Yet! 5 Indispensable Questions to Ask Before Posting on Social Media
