You might have already tired listening to those big career mistakes related advices. We always hear about not to blow up on bosses, not to quit on the spot and definitely not to get plastered at a work event. These are occasional mistakes. However, what about those mistakes you’re continuously doing at your work unconsciously? There are some bad practices that can completely ruin your career silently. As getting digital at work places multiply, most of your mistakes can be occurred if you don’t know how to use them. Your post on social media, the way you text your co-workers, even using your own devices at work could be a career killer for you.
Don’t treat your group chat as a text message:
Most of the offices now use Skype or Slack, or any other team
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Any comment you post on Facebook or Twitter can backfire on you. Never ever post any status on facebook or Twitter that may offend your employer. In 2013, a PR exec went under extreme hatred and eventually lost her job for putting an insensitive joke on Twitter.
Remember, when something goes online that lives forever. You may not find it fair, but you’ll be judged by what you post on social media.
Don’t use your own device at work:
You may find it flexible working from home or sending a work email from your own smartphone while you’re on a restaurant, having coffee. However, it might be very risky if you’re not cautious. Your company may hit by a lawsuit and your device will be one to be wiped off, and you will end up losing all your personal documents from your device. And if there’s a data breach, you will be the one to get suspected. And, of course you’re getting overtime payment for working from your home, do you?
There are lots of digital choices that may endanger your career, but the above actions are often done unconsciously. So, from now on, before doing something like these, just think. You may have to regret
20 years from now are you going to want to look back on a video and think about how immature and hurtful you were to others? If so you might as well quit reading now, but i advise you this is worth some time. Many people wish they could go back in time and change it up or forget the past. Well how in the world is that going to happen if you have this video floating around in the cloud, lost posts, when this video will forever harass certain people. School fights shouldn't be allowed to be posted online because it encourages more fights, it uplifts harassment and bullying, and it stays online forever no matter if you hit delete or not.
Television has affected every aspect of life in society, radically changing the way individuals live and interact with the world. However, change is not always for the better, especially the influence of television on political campaigns towards presidency. Since the 1960s, presidential elections in the United States were greatly impacted by television, yet the impact has not been positive. Television allowed the public to have more access to information and gained reassurance to which candidate they chose to vote for. However, the media failed to recognize the importance of elections. Candidates became image based rather than issue based using a “celebrity system” to concern the public with subjects regarding debates (Hart and Trice). Due to “hyperfamiliarity” television turned numerous people away from being interested in debates between candidates (Hart and Trice). Although television had the ability to reach a greater number of people than it did before the Nixon/Kennedy debate, it shortened the attention span of the public, which made the overall process of elections unfair, due to the emphasis on image rather than issue.
The use of Social Media in the workplace is counter-productive. There are many reasons why this is so. The workplace is the place where you should be working, not checking on what Aunt Ethell had for dinner last night or whether your friends posted that embarrassing weekend photo. Most workplaces have plenty of distractions on their own without adding the extra time-wasting properties of Social Media. There is also the argument that what you post on Social Media can affect the way you are perceived at work. If your habits are less than savoury and your colleagues have access to the proof, you could find yourself without a job at all. It is easy to "slip up" and say things online that you may not have intended to be in the public domain. Internet
In the year 2016 almost everyone applying to a school or business has a social media account. College admission offices and businesses have the ability to check applicant’s social media before they accept them into their school or business. But they should not be looking at social media because it does not give an accurate portrayal of the person applying.
... to facebook and is used to build relationships within the workers. The company also uploads work tips and health information onto the website for the workers .” This is only the beginning to new pioneering ways to use social media in the workplace.
In Cal Newport’s zealous article, “Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It,” he claims that social media can cause severe damage to your career. Newport begins talking about how he doesn’t have any social media accounts and how more people should follow in his footsteps because he believes that it is a waste of time and is not a good way to go about making yourself a career. However, I disagree and believe it is not social media’s fault for damaged careers and can actually bring along some good opportunities.
Currently, social media plays a significant role in our everyday lives and the way people in society interacts with one another. A few years ago, before its influence reached the point where it is now, the large platforms such as Facebook or Twitter which function was merely to keep family and friends connected no matter where they were or what they were doing, and the requirements were an internet connection and a smart phone or a computer. People would share pictures or posts to keep others “updated” on their lives and what they were thinking. Now social media platforms are far more complicated. In various of them, such as Instagram or Snapchat, it is not enough to only share a picture or video of your day, but it is almost a requirement and people are pushed to take an extra mile further away and make yourself appear interesting in the eyes of others. The “feed” requires to be eye catching, the captions should be memorable, the places one goes to ought to look way better than they actually are, you have to include friends in such posts to prove one have a social life outside of the phone. The importance of the number of followers, likes or viewers
As technology increases and develops in this century, the use of social media increases as well. Schools have begun adapting it, using it as their tool to inform students of any school related news. However, using it as a tool for learning is a different story. By using it as a tool, it can push you off your course with classes. Social media is something that is not needed at school grounds. Schools should not require social media use in classes.
Since the introduction of internet in the 1990’s, its importance worldwide has always grown tremendously. From the first email send to the domination of Facebook and other social media websites, it has changed the way people communicate. The use of social media is increasingly becoming the preferred way people share their daily activities, ideas and knowledge and that is why it’s the most talked about and used platform. Many companies are encouraging their employees to use various social media platforms and engage online for office productivity, posting opinions and presenting their thoughts. Corporations realize that Social Media tools such as blogs, forums, podcasts and social networking websites makes internal communications faster, more convenient and effective. Social media is a low-cost, high-impact tool that can also complement and reinforce your existing communications efforts. It gives a new dimension to internal communications in many ways: building relationship with employees, leads to diverse thinking and innovation, and reduce costs and Increase Productivity. Social media has impacted positively in the business world, but its downside has impacted teens in high school, with issues such as cyber bullying, and people using Facebook and twitter to get over their boredom and research proving that the more they use social networking websites the more envious they feel.
Many believe that social media is essential for being employed for a high paying job, such as a lawyer or doctor, but it’s very far from that.
Identity is defined as one’s personal characteristics or attributes and their membership of a social category. In today’s society it is important to note how social media impacts upon our individual identities.
Social media is a form of Internet communication that has taken over the world and made people antisocial
Certain technology helps me and others in so many social ways, in more ways than not. Social technology helps me get ahold of people, contact those whom have no other way to reach them, or even just to see what your peers and friends are up to on a daily basis. Networking helps you keep up with everyone, and see everything that is trending right now. But let’s say I posted something inappropriate on my Facebook or twitter and my future or present boss sees that via social network, then what they perceived about me would be totally re-thought about the way I act outside of the workplace. That boss or co-worker would rethink their decision to hire me or even have me on the team just based on that one post on the internet. Just to keep the image they’re trying so hard to try and keep and boost up. Pertaining that image is their job, so hiring you or me that would also be ou...
Social Networking is a modern and the easiest way to Communicate Online. It has revolutionized the way we communicate over large distances. We can get into contact immediately with Family, Friends, and other people from around the globe using any of the modern Communication mediums such as a Mobile Device or a Computer. There are many possible ways of Social Networking. You can use Social Networking Websites, Blogging, IMs (Instant Messengers), Chatrooms, and Dating Sites to get connected to people.
One of the obvious effects is loss of production and wasting time. Studies have shown that employees would regularly check their Facebook page and Twitter even when they are at work. Also, information that is posted on social media cannot be completely deleted and that post could later on ruin someone’s life. So a cause of this could be maybe someone got into an argument with someone and took it to social media such as Twitter. What one posts online because of their emotions, could later lead to trouble. In extreme conditions, some top athletes have lost their scholarship because of what they post on Twitter. Yuri Wright was one of the top players in his class, but because of what he posted on Twitter he was expelled from his school and lost his football scholarship to Michigan University. (Dan Frank,