The past couple weeks has seen a rash of news stories about elected officials and public employees posting inappropriate or otherwise embarrassing comments in social media. For example: On December 8, 2011, three staffers for Rep. Rick Larsen (D-Wash.) were fired after their inappropriate tweets dating back to July came to light. Among other things,[...]
Government Officials Behaving Badly in Social Media
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 By Brian Wassom
Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: Dmitry Medvedev, embarrassment, facebook, Janice Daniels, Rick Larsen, stupid sheep, Troy, twitter
Evolving Standards of Online Decency?
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 By Brian Wassom
For as long as there has been social media (lo these handful of years), seldom a day has passed without a news story about someone’s online post getting them fired. Teenager tweeting her boredom at work? Canned. Teacher griping about students on Facebook? Fired. Professional athlete trash-talks his management online? Booted. And so on. By[...]
Filed Under: Social Media Tagged With: embarrassment, facebook, twitter, workplace
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