User Advice: Do not consume alcohol while posting
Social media can dominate your day, both socially and professionally. Its a multifaceted service and as good, sober, working people we do wonderful and (sometimes) useful things - we enhance our businesses, blog our well-thought arguments and opinions, share our wisdom etc. Now what happens when we clock off? We leave the office but we can take the social media with us, to access anywhere, anytime... on the tube, at home, in the gym and even in the pub. Great! Or is it??
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Alcohol does have the ability to make most people feel fearless. At parties or in bars you may mingle more, become a little looser lipped, but this is no bad thing. We associate this down time with being relaxed and having fun. It sometimes escalates to more wild activities, which are probably completely appropriate for the circumstance you are in...
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... And that's great. But when you are feeling a little inebriated there seems to be a confusion about logging in to social media and becoming vocal. Celebrities do it all the time but it is quite obvious it is for publicity. I personally don't think we should follow suit.
A meme I saw the other day stated; 'Alcohol increases the use of the send button by 98%'. A very funny commentary on our abilities to be a bit braver after a few...but people seriously seem to really enjoy uploading pretty much anything when they are getting drunk, regardless of the consequences.
There is incredible the amount of people can see your information online and quite hard to remove it indefinitely. Old posts and pics can often still be seen if searched for hard enough and not only is there a fear of your parents seeing an explicit rant or photo it can also affect how your seen in the working world.
If you work for a company who is involved with or uses social media it is very hard to mask a drunken post. You could potentially be damaging your own reputation and the company you work for. This also encompasses potential employers. A huge number of companies now use social media to find out more about their current and potential employees.
One clever online business have coined the idea of the 'social media sobriety test':
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'Webroot' have designed this app to help you decide whether or not you should be posting in the state you have got your self in. Giving you options to block certain sites and a time preference it is fool-proofing your phone.
A wonderful way to prevent getting yourself in trouble and keeping the fun at the party...and not worldwide. Just think next time you have a drink or two, maybe leave your phone at home or at least turn off internet access. Either way, however proud you might be of your alcohol-induced photos and potential posts leave it until the morning!
Faye Cannon
User Advice: Do not consume alcohol while posting
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