All-Star Great Article About Real Life Consequences For Social Media Choices

[dawgshow]

This article was brought to my attention and based on recent discussions, I thought it was worth a post. I'm sure I'll get plenty of eye rolls, but maybe it will hit home for a few people.
One bad tweet can be costly to a student athlete

 

[quitthedrama]

This article was brought to my attention and based on recent discussions, I thought it was worth a post. I'm sure I'll get plenty of eye rolls, but maybe it will hit home for a few people.
One bad tweet can be costly to a student athlete

It is worth everyone reading. Adults and children alike!

 

[CheerBank]

Shared on the other FB as well. Definitely worth reading and sharing with your athlete.

 

[Fierce_Elite]

I like this. But people will always do things they're not supposed to do behind a screen.

 

[dawgshow]

Good reminder for those looking for jobs as well. My school district admitted to searching for me before extending a job offer.

 

[dawgshow]

I like this. But people will always do things they're not supposed to do behind a screen.

That's fine as long as they understand the possible consequences of their actions.

 

[Fierce_Elite]

That's fine as long as they understand the possible consequences of their actions.

I don't think people ever will. Because its behind a screen. You can always be anonymous. No matter how much the site tries and enforce realism and verification, there still always a way to get around that. :( Its sad but its the truth :(

 

[quitthedrama]

I don't think people ever will. Because its behind a screen. You can always be anonymous. No matter how much the site tries and enforce realism and verification, there still always a way to get around that. :( Its sad but its the truth :(

I think it has been proven time and again that it is pretty easy to find out an anonymous person's identity.

 

[Fierce_Elite]

I think it has been proven time and again that it is pretty easy to find out an anonymous person's identity.

Agree to disagree. It may be easy on here, but on sites like Facebook, Twitter, it can be pretty hard. Especially if the person isn't listening exactly where they're from, no real photo's, no real name....... and so on. It will take a long investigation for that. Maybe not too long, but its definitely not a 1, 2, 3, "found you" type thing.

 

[Cheermom1969]

This article was brought to my attention and based on recent discussions, I thought it was worth a post. I'm sure I'll get plenty of eye rolls, but maybe it will hit home for a few people.
One bad tweet can be costly to a student athlete

Every football camp my son has been to over the last three years drills this into the kids. Time and time again colleges are not offering or are withdrawing their offer to high school students who say stupid crap on social media.

 

[Eyes On The Prize]

Good reminder for those looking for jobs as well. My school district admitted to searching for me before extending a job offer.

@kristenthegreat (i believe) made an excellent speech on "Brand You" and how you represent yourself on social media. I just wanted to put a thousand exclamation points on it with a neon "EVERYONE READ THIS BECAUSE IT'S SO IMPORTANT" sign. What to post and what not to post can be an excruciatingly hard lesson to learn - especially when you're young. I speak from experience, it's not a fun thing to go through. But you learn a lot about social media afterwards. Every time I see young kids posting ridiculous things, I cringe.

The reason why I quoted @dawgshow 's post is because your social media is checked so often by so many different people, you really need to be careful about what you post. One of my room mates (who liked to party a lot in school and was fine with talking sh*t about other people online) was actually approached by her professor at school and said that the department wanted to nominate her for some prestigious award through the college for her academic achievements. Her professor got a hold of all of her social media accounts and basically told her "if you don't clean this up and watch what you're saying on social media, there is a chance they will give the award to someone else. There's always someone else." She also got in trouble by our RA for posting a picture of her drinking in our dorm common room and received a warning since our campus was a dry campus. Another one of my room mates worked as an intern at an attorney office in NYC one summer. You can bet the lawyers who are working on the other person's case is scouring your social media posts for evidence to be used against you in court. Professors can see your posts and they will know why you didn't get your work done on time if you post all the pictures of that killer rager you went to the night before. I hate to say it but now that I'm looking for a room mate, if they don't represent themselves well on social media I usually just say to myself " haha keep looking."

That article has so many good tips for everyone. I want to print 5,000,000 out and slap it on everyone's front door.

 

[Keep_Believing]

I know a teacher who got fired over posting info. about an ARD special ed. meeting she attended on Facebook. The post wasn't negative, but even though she didn't use names the school district felt it broke confidentiality.

 

[King]

Remember unless you sign an NDA or have some agreement before hand of sending correspondence anything sent or posted is free to be posted to the world.

 

[dawgshow]

I don't think people ever will. Because its behind a screen. You can always be anonymous. No matter how much the site tries and enforce realism and verification, there still always a way to get around that. :( Its sad but its the truth :(

So you're saying that people can't see the errors of their digital ways and change?

 

[12stepCheermom]

Agree to disagree. It may be easy on here, but on sites like Facebook, Twitter, it can be pretty hard. Especially if the person isn't listening exactly where they're from, no real photo's, no real name....... and so on. It will take a long investigation for that. Maybe not too long, but its definitely not a 1, 2, 3, "found you" type thing.

Not true. Sat down a 7th grade girl in my office and starting from her facebook I showed her just how easy it was to know her name, phone number, address, school, where she grocery shops, church her athletics activities etc. Took less than 10 minutes and she was sufficiently freaked out...which was the point.

And finding anonymous people on Twitter and IG etc isn't hard either. We do it all the time tracking down kids at school that need some digital "redirection."

It works as swiftly, easily and accurately as it has here on the boards.


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