When Social Media Becomes Social Suicide

Many people have gotten online and participated in the various social media platforms. Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, really the list can be countless, with people documenting every portion of their life. Perhaps a little too much of their life if the truth be told. Many instances happen where people are a bit to careless with the information they put across on the social media website of choice. Even if this is done by a naïve teenager, what is done as a teenager is not automatically whitewashed when you become of age. It can and will come back to bite you in the future.





Yet it is not teenagers who do this. Many adults do decide to really take a bit of a lazy issue of not moderating what information they disclose. Or rather what they precisely they say. Social networking can potentially be useful for forging connections and everything along those ways, but it can have quite the devious backfire.

Social Networking Backfires in a Huge Way

There are two types of backfires with this. Number One it causes some kind of real life issue with a person. A comment in print online does not really translate the same way than a comment that is said face to face. Perhaps something is said in a jesting manner and it would be obvious by the facial expression face to face.

Online however, it really does tend to lead to an entirely new game. As much as you shouldn’t really take social networking too seriously, you do need to acknowledge the fact that someone will take things said on social networks a little too seriously. Therefore be careful what you post on there. All it takes is one comment, with the context that it is said not mattering, to destroy a life long friendship. It might seem like a petty way to end but it is true.

However that is just a minor issue compared to the second big backfire. The one which really can in fact make social networking turn into social suicide, with that fact being that potential employers poke around the Facebook account of employees to learn more about that. A comment you long since forgot you made, perhaps out of anger, perhaps out of jest, perhaps out of anything, can really cause a potential employer to think, “do we really want a person like this working on our team”.

See you might not think that employers might find out. However, they will find out if they feel the need to dig. And any employers who are serious about the type of people they hire, will go digging for anything that might be a concern or could become a concern.

So have fun, be merry on Social Networking, but think twice about what you might say and how it could be interpreted by an outsider. There are times where social networking can become social suicide.