Can what you say online have real world consequences?

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Then probably not that high risk. If anything, word of mouth has probably gotten around that the insurance guy is nice and competent but his wife has gone off the deep end.

I'd like to say I wouldn't see why a business owner would do that but I have seen some blatant examples of unprofessionalism on yelp lol. I don't frequent those businesses either!

You're probably right about that (and I sorta had to laugh about the deep end part because as bad as that sounds it's an apt description). Hopefully it doesn't end up hurting them down the road.

 

[mousehockey37]

Regarding the naked baby issue...

I (VERY JOKINGLY) threatened my eldest two daughters that I would use their naked baby pictures as iron on transfers on their bookbags for school if they didn't pick up their rooms.

Those baby pictures are the stuff that goes in yearbooks and photo collages at weddings!!!

As for the OP's OP, yes, things you say online can and do have real world consequences.

Couple examples. On another Disney board, there was a frustrated CM who came on and aired out a bunch of oddities that got the reprimanded. Needless to say there, the instances were so peculiar, that former CM was pulled into a meeting and the thread was brought up by management.

A different example, with my current employer, a person on a different shift was bruised up from the work we do. They posted about it all over FB, but didn't report the "injury" (it's not really injuries, just bumps and bruises you get from doing the work). Well, management caught wind of it and that person got an extra day off via suspension.

I'm surprised that no one's gone into the cyber-bullying spectrum. There's was a report on the news tonight about it actually here.

The internet is forever. I mean, look at everything with the President. He's eating tweets everyday from years ago.

There's a time and place for every bad review, etc... Most notably, if you're going to give a bad review, at least have the decency to have had a discussion with a manager or owner of whatever it is you're going to complain against. Write the bad review, but mention that you did speak with someone.

Basic rule... DON'T BE A KATIEBUG!

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Well the unfortunate thing is the things she shares is on the extreme side of the spectrum when you look up the websites and whatnot of the posts she is sharing.

I guess it could be that no potential or current customer has called that to her attention. The thing is the face of the business is her husband who doesn't use FB at all though he has a FB account he just never uses it. But lately she's been tagging herself and her husband on just everyday things like going out to eat and whatnot to the business's FB account sooooo all it would take is someone to just click on her name and they would be directed to her FB which is just astounding the type of stuff she shares...many of the information on the posts that she has shared comes from fake news websites (or is known to make up stuff at times) or one that have extreme biases.

You make a good point about them never knowing it though if someone just chooses to not go to them for an insurance quote..

They wouldn't be getting my business & would most likely lose it, if I was already a customer. I don't want to be spammed with anyone's political opinion on FB. The friends I have that frequently post political memes & stories have been unfollowed, even though I generally agree with their political views. A business owner buying into the propaganda would not give me confidence in the business.

 

[tcufrog]

I switched optomitrists when me former one expressed racist views during an appointment. If I saw someone such as my insurance agent posting extreme views on either end of the spectrum on Facebook I would consider switching because I would consider it poor judgement and unprofessional.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

They wouldn't be getting my business & would most likely lose it, if I was already a customer. I don't want to be spammed with anyone's political opinion on FB. The friends I have that frequently post political memes & stories have been unfollowed, even though I generally agree with their political views. A business owner buying into the propaganda would not give me confidence in the business.

I personally unfollowed her (though I'm still friends--she is my mother-in-law and I don't have beef with her in that way....) last year. I just couldn't take the political stuff clogging up my news feed.

I wouldn't want to be spammed either with political views by my own family members much less my insurance agent.

I appreciate your thoughts on it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I switched optomitrists when me former one expressed racist views during an appointment.

Oh dear..that's no good at all. And word of mouth can be just as bad as online stuff-if word got out that the optomitrist up the street has no problem expressing those type of thoughts with their clients I could totally see that affecting the business (maybe not completely because you know people are out there that think that way but it could be just enough to make issues).

That would make me very uncomfortable if I'm there to see person X about thing Y and they started chatting about stuff like that. And I'm a person who has had the same eye place for well over 20 years so we have informal talks but not like that...

If I saw someone such as my insurance agent posting extreme views on either end of the spectrum on Facebook I would consider switching because I would consider it poor judgement and unprofessional.

My husband and I def. agree it's unprofessional and poor judgement but I doubt she gets the connection that people can make between her and the business even though it's come up more than once how easy Google makes it to find out things about people.

 

[OhMari]

How do you know the baby is naked? If all you see is chest, maybe it has a diaper on. Sorry I just think that is kinda ridiculous.

No, they post season the babies while they sleep. They are hunched on their knees, with their butts up in the air, one arm/hand is tucked under their chin or both hands. I just feel it is such a private picture of your child, it doesn't belong on social media. No diaper is on.

 

[perditax]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...stopping-girl-cyberbullying-article-1.3375238

 

[klacey1]

Your opinion. I am not hear to argue. Just wish more parents would opt for this.

Soooo you want others to be bothered by something simply because you're bothered by it? Even if they're not naturally/instinctually/normally bothered by it? Okay then.

 

[leebee]

My BIL lost his job over his radical, offensive, insulting, filthy political FB rants during the last campaign season. He was "the cable guy" and his employers said they weren't comfortable having him representing their company, going into people's homes, given the person he'd shown himself to be via facebook. The ironic thing is that you'd never believe it if you'd met this guy in person; soft-spoken, fairly reticent, polite guy... until he sat down at a computer.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

My BIL lost his job over his radical, offensive, insulting, filthy political FB rants during the last campaign season. He was "the cable guy" and his employers said they weren't comfortable having him representing their company, going into people's homes, given the person he'd shown himself to be via facebook. The ironic thing is that you'd never believe it if you'd met this guy in person; soft-spoken, fairly reticent, polite guy... until he sat down at a computer.

Sorry to hear about your brother-in-law.

I personally try to be very careful what I post on FB. I have made 3 posts that even allude to politics in the 11 years that I've had FB and those posts weren't extreme, they weren't related to one party over another and actually 2 of them were about telling other people to just stop with the back and forth tit for tat attacks on party lines--ironically my mother-in-law *liked* that post.....guess she couldn't figure out that she was one of the people I was talking about.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

My BIL lost his job over his radical, offensive, insulting, filthy political FB rants during the last campaign season. He was "the cable guy" and his employers said they weren't comfortable having him representing their company, going into people's homes, given the person he'd shown himself to be via facebook. The ironic thing is that you'd never believe it if you'd met this guy in person; soft-spoken, fairly reticent, polite guy... until he sat down at a computer.

Wow!

 

[Kellykins1218]

No, they post season the babies while they sleep. They are hunched on their knees, with their butts up in the air, one arm/hand is tucked under their chin or both hands. I just feel it is such a private picture of your child, it doesn't belong on social media. No diaper is on.

Seriously, you're joking, right?

 

[sam_gordon]

No, they post season the babies while they sleep. They are hunched on their knees, with their butts up in the air, one arm/hand is tucked under their chin or both hands. I just feel it is such a private picture of your child, it doesn't belong on social media. No diaper is on.

I'm confused. You keep changing your story. First it was showing the chests of babies. Then that they were naked but you don't see below their waists. Now they're "hunched on their knees", in which case you can't see their chests. If you can't see below the waist, how do you know there's no diaper? And you still haven't explained what you report them to FB for? Because it's a "private" picture? What does that mean? How does that violate ANY laws or regulations?

 

[jevs]

I have this conversation with my kids all the time, especially the teenager. Recently the school had the police in to talk about the legal stuff to the high schoolers - how even if they don't open a (for example) nude picture they've been sent (without owners permission) they can still be prosecuted for having it on their phone, and stuff like that.

nb/ this doesn't include baby pictures, but pictures of their peers etc.

As for me. My FB page is pretty private unless I want something public. My twitter isn't private but I don't tweet anything I wouldn't want my kids to read, I'm sassy but never abusive. I don't do forums apart from this one and Tripadvisor, never had points from TA and it's been at least 12 months since I had points here.

 

[sunshinehighway]

My BIL lost his job over his radical, offensive, insulting, filthy political FB rants during the last campaign season. He was "the cable guy" and his employers said they weren't comfortable having him representing their company, going into people's homes, given the person he'd shown himself to be via facebook. The ironic thing is that you'd never believe it if you'd met this guy in person; soft-spoken, fairly reticent, polite guy... until he sat down at a computer.

I'm glad he lost his job. People need to knock off the vile behavior online.
I had an interaction on fb recently that really made me realize just how out of control people are.
It was a fb post from a relative, nothing really, nothing political or anything like that. People, including me, commented trying to explain something about privacy settings to her. Some friend of hers commented a total rant about how we were all ******* stupid and needed to learn how to read. The relative commented and lol'd her friend and replied positively to her.
It just really made me stop and think. How is that acceptable behavior? If she had brought that friend to a cookout or something would she be laughing and agreeing if her friend said those things? I highly doubt it. It shouldn't be ok online either.

 

[CarolAnn856]

No, they post season the babies while they sleep. They are hunched on their knees, with their butts up in the air, one arm/hand is tucked under their chin or both hands. I just feel it is such a private picture of your child, it doesn't belong on social media. No diaper is on.

First of all, you are giving a very detailed description of something you claim you don't even want to see. Odd.

Second, if a bare baby butt freaks you out, I hope you never visit an art museum, lol.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

I find the person someone is behind the computer or when they're drinking is the person they really are. The other side if them is the censored side they use to mask their true feelings.

As for the other topic so many people are hung up on, it's been beaten to death & wasn't a question in the first place. This could be a good topic to discuss, if people would get back to the original question rather than beating a non-question to death. Perhaps, some of you so hung up on baby pictures could start a new thread instead of cluttering this one.

 

[here757]

Sorry to hear about your brother-in-law.

I personally try to be very careful what I post on FB. I have made 3 posts that even allude to politics in the 11 years that I've had FB and those posts weren't extreme, they weren't related to one party over another and actually 2 of them were about telling other people to just stop with the back and forth tit for tat attacks on party lines--ironically my mother-in-law *liked* that post.....guess she couldn't figure out that she was one of the people I was talking about.

Kinda related to all the posts about Facebook..
I was watching shark tank.
There is a company that will scrub all your posts. Facebook ,twitter, blogs. Etc
What they do is bury your dirt at the bottom of the search..
SO! If I worked for HR I'd start there

 

[NFLDERS]

My online posting rule of thumb is not to post anything I don't want my boss, co-workers, family, children, in-laws, friends and/or neighbors to read. I'm constantly surprised how much oversharing there is online.

I'm just reading here so... not up to speed yet. I do not post anything about my grands without the explicit acknowledgement of their parents. One Ddil, and our son are open to anything I choose. Our other son, and his wife wish to decide, and for the most part do not want me sharing their life. I respect that too. Happy posting all