Comments and Tweets can cost you your job. Yahoo news reported that a newspaper editor in Australia was recently fired for commenting on Facebook about an upcoming story. His error: posting that a local murder was going to boost newspaper sales, that death is good for business. Read the story here.
This is the second incident in recent months where a person in the media industry has been let go for out of control social network commentary. What we say at the water cooler is one thing, online is another. The audience is anonymous, public and gigantic. Think before you ink.
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