Social network can cost you your career

My fellow designers this one is for you guys, as we stepping into creative world. Social media is a very dangerous tool to have especially, at the work place. But it depends who you add on your list of friends, things we need to consider when sending or accepting a friend request. I just want to share with some incidence that has occurred to some online community fellows.

It seems a great idea to add new friends at the office onto your social network accounts in the first few weeks. Sometime it can be difficult task to juggle work friends, real friends, old friends, family and those people you don’t really know. The excitement of meeting new people and making new friends can be overwhelming. What we need to careful about is the industry that we will be tapping into which is very small and people mostly know each other from different agencies. Socialising is common in the creative industry people meet after work and have drinks. It is a social norm for creative to hang out and discuss work share ideas and obviously the office gossip will obviously come up. People are getting into trouble for being connected to social events, saying information that could be taken out of context or talking about their workplace in some way. This could result to serious offence when it come to the other party it could be your management. These connections are extremely risky ultimately could cost you your reputation.

I want us to go back to our online accounts and clean up some content that could decrease our chances of getting employed.  Let’s be careful and make sure that our connections are with the people that we trust and be aware of the information that we post online.

Source:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1206491/Woman-sacked-Facebook-boss-insult-forgetting-added-friend.html