In this era of booming social media, many peoples would care less on what they post, share, or comment on the social media platforms. Dr. Sadrag Shihomeka, a Lecturer at the University of Namibia in his public presentation (held 26th Oct 17) on "social media vigilantism" has stressed the issues of ethical use of the social media and the repercussion of one's trails on the social media. I would like to zoom a little bit on what or how one's trails or footprints can haunt him/her, block his/her potentials and ruin his/her professional reputation.
There is a growing trend of requiring job seekers to apply through web platforms among the organizations. These organizations would ask the job seekers to provide their social media (facebook, twitter, linkedin) url/links in addition to their CVs. The reasons why organizations would like to scrutinize your social media life is because there is a link between how you behave of social media/online and how you behave offline. Even though some youth would often put disclaimers on their social media walls to say what they say on social media does not necessarily reflect their offline or 'real life', it would not be easy to convince someone that one's offline life would not overlap with online life even though not necessarily 100%. Read more
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