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We’ve all had work days in which we wished we’d be asked to leave and never come back. Then comes the hard-hitting reality that unemployment is about as bad as it gets in the professional world.
Phoenix resident Amy McClenathan, who is still heartbroken over the loss of her mother, learned this lesson after updating her Facebook status with the confession, “I wish I could get fired some days, it would be easier to be at home than to have to go through this.”
Her wish came true. Her getting fired may not have been legal, but she takes full responsibility for the post. If you want to keep your job, keep your complaints off Facebook.
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http://mashable.com/2013/01/27/facebook-fired/
The bottom line: If you have something to hide, DON’T PUT IT ON FACEBOOK. Do not chat inappropriately. Do not post secrets. Do not THIS. Do not THAT. You never know if somehow your deepest secrets will “accidentally” become fodder for the masses to enjoy.
The social network has offered a growing array of options and settings to control privacy, particularly for what shows up on your own page, which Facebook now calls your ‘Timeline’.
But one thing you can’t control as well is what your friends post about you. Your best bet? Only post what you WANT people to think you are, not who you REALLY are. Sugarcoat it. Lie. Force the rated “G”. That way, when you run for Congress “they” will have nothing to get you on.
But have you totally protected yourself? Probably not. Maintaining your reputation and credibility as an upstanding citizen (if it matters to you) is not as easy as you might think. The Wall Street Journal has identified three loopholes you may not have thought of where leaks of your dark side could surface without your knowledge. Be educated. As for past transgressions, all you can do is hope and pray that your secrets remain, well, secret. Forevermore.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/10/12/three-facebook-privacy-loopholes/
They said it would never happen. Pay for Facebook? But nobody said you couldn’t, if you wanted to. Facebook Inc. is letting users in the United States pay a fee to boost the visibility of their postings on the social network, the company’s latest effort to look beyond advertisers for revenue.
The promoted-posts-for-users feature, which Facebook began offering as a test on Wednesday to a limited number of its U.S. users, ensures that a comment or photo shared by a Facebook member gets prominent billing in their friends’ newsfeeds.
The paid postings will be visible on the desktop and mobile versions of the social network. Facebook will place the paid-for postings towards the top of people’s newsfeeds for a limited period of time. Facebook’s newsfeed typically displays content by freshness and relevance.
How much would you pay to be certain your posts are being viewed by your friends? The current test price in the United States is $7, according to a Facebook spokesman. Maybe it’s worth it for everyone to be certain to see your latest post of the family mutt hugging the family cat while in peaceful slumber. Wouldn’t want to miss that.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-facebook-featurebre89219w-20121003,0,6490336.story
If you have ever wanted to be in a music video, Linkin Park is making your dream come true with their new interactive video for their new single “Lost In The Echo.”
Co-directed by Tool’s Jason Zada, renown commercial and video director, and interactive director Jason Nickel, creators of the award winning Take This Lollipop viral video, the interactive music video features the viewer’s digital world through use of pictures from their own Facebook profile.
The video application asks permission for temporary access to the user’s Facebook photos and incorporates them in the video. These photos are integrated into the storytelling through stunning visuals, set against the song.
Check out the video here.
http://www.antimusic.com/news/12/August/30Linkin_Park_Put_You_In_Their_New_Video.shtml
Don’t have a Facebook account? Maybe you better get one fast or else you could be perceived as someone who has something to hide. The German magazine Der Taggspiegel went so far as to point out that accused theater shooter James Holmes and Norwegian mass murder Anders Behring Breivik have common ground in their lack of Facebook profiles.
Facebook has become such a pervasive force in modern society that increasing numbers of employers, and even some psychologists, believe people who aren’t on social networking sites are ‘suspicious.’ The common concern among bosses is that a lack of Facebook could mean the applicant’s account could be so full of red flags that it had to be deleted.
If you are an older, already productive adult, these judgments don’t apply.
And this is what the argument boils down to: It’s the suspicion that not being on Facebook, which has become so normal among young adults, is a sign that you’re abnormal and dysfunctional, or even dangerous. I’m sure Zuckerberg is pleased with this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184658/Is-joining-Facebook-sign-youre-psychopath-Some-employers-psychologists-say-suspicious.html
They are watching you. Always watching. Every little thing you do. Every “i” you do not dot. Every “t” you do not cross. All the escapades, drinking, partying, gambling, and debauchery you post on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. And they DO pay attention to your grammar.
Who, you ask? The grammar police? Nope, job recruiters. If you are looking for a job, it’s best to clean up your act and demonstrate some self control.
A whopping 92% of U.S. companies say they are using social networks to find talent in 2012, according to a new survey.
In addition to checking your resume, nearly 3 out of 4 hiring managers and recruiters check candidates’ social profiles — 48% always do so, even if they are not provided.
LinkedIn still reigns supreme as the recruiting hot spot, but some serious recruiting also takes place on Facebook and Twitter, according to the poll by social recruiting platform Jobvite, which polled more than 1,000 human resources and recruitment professionals.
Sure, they say they aren’t judging you on your politics or religion — they really shouldn’t be by law anyway – but you better believe they’re raising eyebrows at how you express yourself. Posted profanity got a 61% negative reaction, plus grammar and spelling mistakes got a 54% negative reaction.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/jobs/la-fi-social-recruiting-jobs-20120709,0,666978.story
Go ahead. Check it. Check your email listing on your Facebook page. See? Without asking for permission, Facebook has changed users’ listed email address to one ending in “@facebook.com.”
The changed was discovered Saturday, and has resulted in either users having their @facebook.com address being listed or simply having all of their other addresses be hidden. It happened to me as well.
While users can opt out of having their @facebook.com address listed, the troubling part of the change is how Facebook went about implementing it. The social network didn’t as much as announce the change was coming or alert users once it happened.
To change back your email address, go to your profile, click “Update info,” scroll down to “Contact Info” and click “Edit.” Select with whom you want to share each individual email address and to the right of that choose whether you want your email displayed on your timeline or not.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-changes-emails-20120625,0,2962878.story
It’s all so confusing. The Killers may have said it best: “Somebody told me, that you had a boyfriend, who looked like a girlfriend, I had in February of last year…”
Evidently, she was allegedly trying to BE the girlfriend by being the boyfriend of a 15-year-old girl she met online. Posing as a 17-year-old boy named “James Puryear Wilson”, Carissa Hads met the teenage girl on an unnamed “social networking site” around October 2010.
Hads was arrested two weeks ago on a U.S. District Court complaint accusing her of coercion or enticement of a minor, a felony carrying a maximum of 30 years in prison. On Friday, Hads was ordered held without bond by a federal magistrate judge who ruled she was a flight risk and a danger to the community.
Hads, using the “Wilson” persona, and the girl became “involved in an internet romance” that included Hads sending the teen two cell phones “for A.L.’s use to contact ‘him.’” Along with paying the girl’s monthly cell phone bills, Hads also sent her a Kindle Fire tablet, according to the affidavit.
Didn’t A.L.’s parents think it was a LITTLE strange for their daughter to be sent such extravagant gifts? And A.L.’s mother drove her own daughter 100 miles to meet an internet friend at a MOTEL? Then, two months later lets that “friend” stay at their house for five days–unsupervised?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/female-poses-as-male-789432
I’m guilty of 33.33% of these types of posts. Having said that, I fiercely defend my decision to post on Facebook when I’m listening to q101.com and what song is playing. The need to share my glee and excitement about songs and music far outweighs any thought that someone might tire of this type of post from me. They expect no less.
My own list of Facebook rules goes something like this:
Keep a positive attitude. FML has no place on my posts.
Don’t name call. Sticks and stones, baby.
Don’t spread vicious lies. Also, don’t spread NON vicious lies.
Make people laugh. Or try to.
Share the love. It makes ME happy to make YOU happy.
If your life truly sucks, try to “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” (whistling ensues).
Try to be considerate of others’ feelings.
Use big words to confuse others, making them run to dictionary.com. You are improving their education while at the same time having fun.
Don’t fight with your family or significant other on Facebook.
Don’t forget, once it’s on Facebook, it’s “forever”.
Are YOU guilty of any of these so called no-no’s? Guyism.com has come up with THEIR list, shown below.
Ultimately, what you post is your business. Your friends ALWAYS have the option of skipping your post, marking it as spam, or unfriending you.
http://guyism.com/humor/things-need-stop-sharing-facebook.html#1-undefined
This is ONE way to avoid paying capital gains taxes. Evidently, the desire to keep a few extra billion dollars is a small price to pay for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
Saverin has renounced his U.S. citizenship, according to an Internal Revenue Service report, just days before the company’s initial public offering.
He now lives in the Asian city-state of Singapore, which has no capital-gains tax. That compares with a minimum 15 percent rate for long-term capital gains in the United States for people in higher income brackets.
The Brazil-born Saverin was educated in the U.S. at Harvard, where he co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg and others.
Giving up citizenship is an irrevocable act, the State Department says. I hope it’s worth it to Severin.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-facebook-cofounder-renounces-citizenship-before-ipo-20120511,0,3837012.story
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