A recent article on MSN caught my eye so I felt the urge to blog about it. With social media becoming a part of our everyday lives, people have the ability to keep up with everyone and everything that their contacts are doing. If they are posting updates of course. If your like me you have friends/contacts that fall into three categories; 1) Friends whom you are in contact with regularly, 2) Friends/Acquaintances whom you’ve been in contact with at one point in time but don’t converse with regularly and 3) Co-workers/Professionals whom you work with or have a connection with from your profession. Things I share with my friends/contacts in each of those categories differs. In fact, there are some things that shouldn’t be shared with a certain contact.
An article that was written by Career Builder on MSN is titled, “8 Ways to Get Fired Because of Social Media“, outlines tips on what NOT to post as you probably have contacts that shouldn’t read what you’ve posted. An interesting statistic stated in the article claimed that so far this year, 21% of companies with 1000 employees or more have disciplined their employees which was up from 13% in 2008. This is a sign that social media is being recognized more by employers and things that you could post before should be read twice or maybe three times before clicking that “Post” button.
