• cfradenburg (4/19/2012)


    TravisDBA (4/19/2012)


    So all that "Don't do this" is just a bunch of hot air in my opinion.:-D

    So you would argue that behavior on forums or other social media sites doesn't have any professional implications? I would think that people that have been fired over what they've posted on Facebook would say that's not the case whether or not you agree with the reason. And while I can't think of anything that someone would do on these forums that would get them fired I can so that if I knew a job candidate posted here I would take a look at their posts to try to get a feel for what it would be like to work with them.

    The potentially misleading thing about reports like that is how many people who have posted "inappropriate" content on Facebook who haven't been fired is always left out of the reports. Mainly because there's no possible way to collect that data.

    Alarmist reports of that nature are written to create fear. They have no other actual purpose. If they were intended to inform and educated, they would go way beyond a slideshow of 17 people and "hah hah look what bad things these morons did" kind of reporting.

    Fear, as aimed for by most modern media, fixates attention. That's a standard part of human emotional responses. Fixated attention, which is also the primary mechanism of hypnosis and mesmerism, gets marketing responses.

    Keep that in mind when you read these things. It helps you separate the emotion from the data, and you'll find that most modern "reporting" is remarkably sparse in data. Sometimes completely missing it. And what it does present is carefully selected to enhance a feeling of fear and helplessness. So filter by that before you accept anything reported in this manner.

    If you want a perfect example of how this works, check out www.dhmo.org.

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