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by: rocket Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Apr 19, '15 10:09pm  
Social Media Insanity
 
Apparently there's no such thing as having a bad day anymore. Now your bad day just might end up on the Internet thanks to cameras that are just about watching our every public move. Be they attached to a cell phone or surveillance system you have to assume you're being photographed or filmed.
 
Accordingly as with the recently suspended ESPN reporter, if you momentarily become angry in a public space your temporary insanity can come back to hunt you. A couple of decades ago when this happened, decent people went back to the person they unjustly unloaded on and apologized. Now you might be on some social media site before the sun sets.
 
This can be especially hazardous if you have one of those careers in which the company or organization determines you represent them 24 hours a day. So you get into it with the parking attendant during "off hours" and next thing you know you're called on the carpet having to explain your actions. At best some receive verbal counseling in these situations. At worst some lose their jobs.
 
So just like the old Christmas song - You better watch out, You better not cry, Better not pout I'm telling you why...
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cbp210 Active Indicator LED Icon 12
~ 8 years ago   Apr 20, '15 2:19am  
I think we need a good EMP device to wipe out all this technology.
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tb505 Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 8 years ago   Apr 20, '15 11:51am  
she should have been fired! A TV personality is the face of the company and has to act accordingly.
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RollingStone Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 8 years ago   Apr 20, '15 12:14pm  
Hard to judge because the video I saw was edited and you could only hear what the reporter was saying. I have to hear both sides of that conversation before I judge it.
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rocket Active Indicator LED Icon 15 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Apr 20, '15 12:24pm  
@tb505
 
I agree that her comments were ugly. However what we seem to be saying in the modern era is that very few are allowed to have an off day. You know one of those days where you say something that you later realize you shouldn't have.
 
As I said, before social media such days were primarily between you and the person(s) with whom you interacted. Now your meltdown is there for literally the whole world to see. With the standards we have now not only are television personalities in serious trouble but potentially the rest of us too.
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nikkiole Active Indicator LED Icon 11 Forum Moderator
~ 8 years ago   Apr 20, '15 12:50pm  
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Sheltie_Momma Active Indicator LED Icon 14
~ 8 years ago   Apr 20, '15 4:23pm  
It's more like living in a small town - everybody knows everything.
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Catmae Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 8 years ago   Apr 20, '15 5:12pm  
@rocket Or like other lines in the song, "He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake .... ". Only now we have to worry about Big Brother, in addition to Santa Clause, lol.
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~ 8 years ago   Apr 21, '15 2:33pm  
@cbp210
 
Detonate a "Small" kiloton nuke about a mile over Kansas and the entire american electric grid is gone.
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sandman Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 8 years ago   Apr 21, '15 2:41pm  
@Drekonix
 
Don't give him any ideas...
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Drekonix Active Indicator LED Icon 1
~ 8 years ago   Apr 21, '15 2:42pm  
@sandman
 
Just pointing out that we are surprisingly vulnerable... one of the reasons we are fighting for Iran to never achieve nuclear proliferation.
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