How can a tweet destroy your life.

14 Was reading this article today and even though is not about nursing, it related greatly in how can a simple post in a social media site destroy your life and career.
A great read to remember that the internet is a force to be careful with.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/15..._r=1&referrer=
I remember reading about that when it happened. About 6 months ago, I think? Just goes to show, better think before you put stuff out there. Kids these days (good lord, did I just say that?) don't seem to realize the ramifications of this.My husband read an article to me a week or so back about a 19yo girl who tweeted something to the effect of "Yay, start a ****** awful job tomorrow!" and an employee of the place where she was hired brought it to the attention of the restaurant owner. The restaurant owner, who had registered a Twitter account several years ago but had never used it, posted his very first tweet in response, saying "No, actually you don't! Good luck with your life!"

Quote from kloneI remember reading about that when it happened. About 6 months ago, I think? Just goes to show, better think before you put stuff out there. Kids these days (good lord, did I just say that?) don't seem to realize the ramifications of this.My husband read an article to me a week or so back about a 19yo girl who tweeted something to the effect of "Yay, start a ****** awful job tomorrow!" and an employee of the place where she was hired brought it to the attention of the restaurant owner. The restaurant owner, who had registered a Twitter account several years ago but had never used it, posted his very first tweet in response, saying "No, actually you don't! Good luck with your life!"

How one can be as accomplished to be a senior director at a company and simultaneously be so immature and ignorant of the ramifications of their actions truly baffles me.

I participated in the public shaming of Lindsey Stone (mentioned in the article and pictured below) and demanded her firing, and would happily do so again. As the wife of an Afghanistan veteran (he was in country when she did this), and descendant of many generations of veterans, there was no way I was letting this go. Doing dumb stuff based on running jokes with your friends is one thing. Putting this on a public feed to crap all over veterans with a war going on is quite another. And she wasn't some naive kid when she did this, she was THIRTY years old.Maybe sometimes people don't deserve what they get.....and maybe sometimes they do.The main focus of the article was a public relations professional. It defies belief that she couldn't see how stupid and damaging those tweets would be. If she really didn't understand that, she deserved to lose her job, because she clearly didn't understand public relations and how to use media well!

Dang it, forgot the picture:

Quote from Red KryptoniteDang it, forgot the picture:

According to the story, the cemetery pic was part of a running joke she has with a friend. It was a stupid thing to do, but it also was not meant for public consumption.

Quote from Not_A_Hat_PersonAccording to the story, the cemetery pic was part of a running joke she has with a friend. It was a stupid thing to do, but it also was not meant for public consumption.

Quote from Red KryptoniteThen she shouldn't have made it public.

I don't see how the context ("She and her co-worker Jamie, who posted the picture on Facebook, had a running joke about disobeying signs — smoking in front of No Smoking signs, for example — and documenting it." from the above article) makes it/or would make it any better. Smoking in front of a no smoking sign?This was a 32 year old.

Quote from MulanI don't see how the context ("She and her co-worker Jamie, who posted the picture on Facebook, had a running joke about disobeying signs — smoking in front of No Smoking signs, for example — and documenting it." from the above article) makes it/or would make it any better. Smoking in front of a no smoking sign?This was a 32 year old.

So the picture went viral because her co-worker's Facebook account was public?