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According to Mark Zuckerberg, Co-founder and CEO, Facebook, "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time." When someone I know made a post, tweet, snap chat, uploaded a video picture, or comment that makes me feel immediately regretted. The consequence of this situation can be affect to my feeling. I feel a sorry, confused, dissatisfied, and a little bit suffer that why he/she has to do something like this, what’s happens to me. If it is a nonsense problem, I decide to let it go because in the social online, a lot of people post many things that they want without caring that it can affect …show more content…

The number of people fired over social media posts is rising, and many employers look closely at a job candidate's online presence before making a decision. According to a 2013 survey from CareerBuilder, which helps corporations target and attract workers found that 39% of employers dig into candidates on social sites while 43% said they had found something that made them deep-six a candidate such as posting inappropriate photos or information, or bad-mouthing a former boss. On the other hand, 19% said they found information that sold them on a candidate, such as communication skills or a professional …show more content…

It depends on a situation. Employers have the right to monitor their employees’ use of the Internet including visiting social networking sites, checking e-mails, and instant messaging on computers owned by the employer, during employees’ on-duty hours. In some cases, employers use information in social media to look at candidate background because employers want to certify a potential hire is qualified and will indicate well on the company. An online profile can provide information on career objectives, professional credentials, current employment status, maturity and judgment, and abuse of drugs or alcohol. However, there is potential discrimination if employers use personal information such as race, age, disability, religion, national origin, and gender to make a hiring decision. Consequently, state and federal laws explicitly prohibit that kind of conduct. Keeping an eye on employees helps companies protect themselves. It's all too easy for disgruntled or tone-deaf employees to go onto social media and criticize customers, harass subordinates and otherwise misbehave. Sometimes that can bring workplace tensions and complaints, sometimes it can damage a company's reputation in the marketplace, and sometimes it can lead all the way to lawsuits or regulatory

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Jobs can check on employees social media accounts to find out if you are fit for the job or if you are going to bring a bad environment while working. 8% of the potential employees that were rejected as a result of information found on search engines and networking sites were rejected because their screen name was unprofessional(Jones, Michael, Schuckman, Watson). When hiring a writer, for example, I’d be more likely to choose one who had a blog (assuming it was well-written) than one who did not, even if I disagreed with some of the views it contained(Lee). Jobs will be looking for something they should be alert about employees

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The First Amendment which prohibits the making of any law abridging the freedom of speech protects a citizen’s right, in limited circumstances, to speak out on matters of public concern. (Berman E 2013, pg. 63) Public employment or private doesn’t stop an employee from expressing himself. Determining when an employee has crossed the line can be difficult. This brings me to an article, “Employee Facebook Likes Are Protected Activity, Appellate Court Rules,” on xpertHR website.

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This is also a very debatable topic among many individuals today as social media has grown to be such a significant influence on our lives. This topic is controversial because many believe that you should be free to express whatever you choose to on social media without it affecting your profession. This could also relate to social drinking and could also include adding clients on social media. Many individuals today post photos and videos of them enjoying a night of drinking with friends. They view social media as a freedom of speech and so do not believe it should affect their profession.

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Another side effect of social media is sharing to much information for the entire world to see. Anyone from a future employer to a criminal can see your information. Information such as where you live and where you work can put people or their loved ones in danger. Many people have their accounts on private, but Ali Kingston Mwila has something else to say, “Even with the tight security settings your personal information may leak on the social sites.” (linkedin.com).

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As seen through the examples above, in today’s day and age, social media has gone so far to jeopardize people’s

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P!nk like many other female music artists in the industry, are social influencers. They captivate, motivate, and set the norm in many cases through music, lyrics, and videos. Pop culture, soft rock, and hip hop are big social standard setting in which both female and males feel as if they need to keep up in order to be part of the social “circle.” Social media is one of the biggest if not the biggest social influencer in where new trends, thinking, and style are all set. The norm is constantly changing, there is always new lyrics and beats created making new ideological thinking specifically in gender.

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Many others believe that businesses should not be able to monitor their employees without social media. Accordingly “More than half (53 percent) of colleges monitor social media for ‘buzz’ about their institution” (“Use of Social”). Colleges use the information they find on the internet to keep their student’s safe. Furthermore, ”one might argue that they should because such a profile reflects your ‘character’ or your priorities or your public presence” (Boyd). If someone constantly makes the decision to post something that he or she knew the entire world could see, then he or she should be able to face the consequences of an employer or college denying their application.

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Taking Intro to Sociology this semester, we have discussed norms and normative behavior quite extensively. That class has reshaped my view of what it means to be normal. Resultantly, I think of normal as a relative term. Normal is whatever we are socialized to believe. As in our society we are socialized to believe so many different things no one can be normal.

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Policies also cannot restrict employees on what can be said on their personal social media sites, even if their comments are negative and/or suggest an undesirable observation about the work environment or a particular person (Dewey, 2014). Ornstein also suggests that policies be made in conjunction with federal, state and local laws and any monitoring of employee activity should involve particular interests and should not impede on employee’s rights as no policy can dictate what an employee chooses to engage in when “off-duty” (Ornstein,

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The sites can then sell information to larger corporations, track your searches, and even get personal information with ease. The only way you can get out of this endless stalking from big corporations is to simply not use social media sites. It can be argued that social media is the sole reason for being watched, but as stated before, what you purchase is also watched by the sites. Along with the endless stalking from corporate giants, the government agencies have also been in the

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Also, she says that the majority of companies are using tools which help them see the accounts of its employees B. Sub point B: cause 2: In the article on howstuffworks.com written by Dave Roos, he says that hacking on social media requires a few technical skills. it does not require many technical skills because some people are not aware of privacy settings or they just decide not to use it. Also, he says that hacking an account in social media is a psychological game because the only thing they need to unlock the account is the information they have on their profiles.

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Employers are fire from their jobs or are put on pressure because of an incident on their social media website. This can be the result of one thing they put online that undermined the person’s skilled

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Searching social media can give an insight to people’s personalities. People should be more careful on the internet because social media can be used for employee background checks, collage background checks, and violations of personal privacy. In recent years hiring managers have also begun checking out the personal social media pages of candidates under consideration for a position, a practice known as "social media background checks," ( Employees Should Accept ).

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“Business Insider reports that social networking is the most popular use of the Internet - surpassing email - and smartphones and other mobile devices seem to be the driving force behind this trend since 60 percent of the traffic is from a mobile source. The Global Web Index poll shows that 28 percent of the time spent online is on social networks. With these type of numbers, some of the time spent on social media occurs at work. ”(C.R.Claywell (2014) Advantages and Disadvantages of Social Networking retrieved from http://socialnetworking.lovetoknow.com/Advantages_and_Disadvantages_of_Social_Networking) Using social networking without control while worktime contribute to the loss of productivity.

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