Social Media Costing you a Job or Promotion

What is social media, media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. The most common social media outlets are twitter, facebook, myspace, linkedin and you-tube. A wide variety of people and even companies use social media. The danger is what people are sharing on those outlets that causes us to sound the alarm. Many people are out of work because of what they shared on social media. An art teacher's love for art cost him his job when he posed artistically on you-tube. A women claim she injured her arm on the job and files a worker's compensation claim but she shares pictures on facebook contradicting her claim, she is fired. As a professional, you have a responsibility to protecting your brand, even from yourself. Exercise care when sharing pictures and comments.