6 questions you need to ask yourself before posting anything on social media

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A few months ago, I came across a very interesting story that was trending on the internet at the time. It involved a Twitter user who announced on her profile that she had landed a job at NASA, using somewhat more explicit language.

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To this, another Twitter user replied that she should be careful with her expression.

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After she sent him a not-so-decent response, it turned out that the denmark whatsapp list who warned her was Homer Hickam, a famous writer and engineer at NASA who also trained the first Japanese astronauts.

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Naomi did not get a job at NASA after this correspondence, although Homer Hickam published a text on his blog in which he claimed that he was not responsible for it, that she apologized to him, as he did to her, and that he advocated for her job to be reinstated. The text on the blog has since been deleted, as has this correspondence on Twitter, and Naomi still did not get the job.

Although she lost the job she claimed was her dream job, she probably learned a valuable lesson about thinking twice before posting something on social media, because she is neither the first nor the last to lose or lose a job after posting content online.

People are much freer online than in real life because they are hidden behind their monitors and phone screens, which give them courage, so it is easier for them to say or declare something than they would in the real world while communicating with people they look into the eyes of. This is how trolls are created, among other things.

The thought “it won't happen to me” is very common and again wrong because anything can happen to anyone, just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Since everything on the internet is recorded somewhere, and screenshots are a well-known method of preserving evidence, you can never be completely sure that something you posted, regretted, and deleted wasn't still recorded somewhere or on someone's phone.

Social media is useful for business and for creating your own personal brand. It's also fun and an ideal place to find (fake) news, find inspiration, ideas, have fun and (in)efficiently waste time. As I use it for business purposes, I have a love-hate relationship with it. In other words, I love to hate it and hate to love it, which you can read here .

Cases like this one involving a job loss at NASA due to inappropriate communication are more common than you might think. Sometimes, a single comment you left on someone's Facebook profile is enough to ruin a career opportunity, as HR teams thoroughly comb through the data of all candidates they shortlist based on qualifications to make sure they're dealing with the right person.

And what provides better evidence of a person's character, behavior, and habits than an entire photo album and a palette of thoughts and insights into the private lives of today's modern people obsessed with the internet and social networks?