Selfies & Social Media Can Get You Fired

[missmuffet]

I am glad I have an old "tin can and string" cellphone with an old camera that is no good for stuff like that.   My phone goes back to like 2008, which in technology years is like 3,000 BC.  I am one of the few people who still uses  a cell phone as a phone.  Nothing fancy, no web surfing, no data minutes.   In my opinion, "selfies"  are just narcissistic.

I have one of those shiloh  My cell phone is an antique.My cell phone does not have a memory card or a camera.It rings and I answer it.I only use it for emergencies or if my kids need me and I am not available.

 

shiloh357

"I dunno, ncn, that's  a little too high tech for me.  I still haven't mastered the clay tablet and stylus yet.

 

A person I can really relate to.I am still trying to master "the computer".   

[missmuffet]

I do know that you can be fired for posting personal or derogatory statements about your job or the people that you work with on FB.When you apply for a job companies can look at your FB to see who they might be hiring.There have been people fired where I used to work because of serious FB issues.

[MorningGlory]

 

  My phone goes back to like 2008, which in technology years is like 3,000 BC. 

 

You could upgrade to this. 

 

 

 

 

[MorningGlory]

 

I dunno, ncn, that's  a little too high tech for me.  I still haven't mastered the clay tablet and stylus yet.

Selfies are just a fashion of the narcissistic generation that we have today. FB is appalling anyway, it's all me, me, me.

 

By the way Shiloh, my phone goes back to 2005 (I think) so I believe I've beaten you on that one. It only makes and receives phone calls and sends and receives text messages. The camera doesn't work and there is no internet or wi-fi access.

Don't get me wrong, I like technology but I have a particular distaste of mobile telephones. I think it's because I get annoyed by seeing people texting all the time and fed-up of hearing someone in the street who appears to be shouting to himself. Why people on phones shout, I've no idea. Maybe it's because they think that they have to shout because the person they are talking to is far, far away. Personally, I'm not interested in letting the general public hear my private conversations. I'm not important enough for my private life to be of any interest to them but everybody else thinks that their own lives are!

 

Rant over.

 

 

I ran into a person like that yesterday in a convenience store.  He came up behind me, yelling into his phone (in some Indian dialect yet).  After multiple dirty looks I turned around and asked him if he was deaf.  He just kept on shouting so, apparently, he was.  I DESPISE people who talk loudly into their phones in public and especially those who carry on four-letter-word laced one sided conversations in public places.  I WILL tell them I don't want to hear it.  I've concluded that some people (and there aren't many) aren't smart enough to be trusted with a cell phone.

[MorningGlory]

I do know that you can be fired for posting personal or derogatory statements about your job or the people that you work with on FB.When you apply for a job companies can look at your FB to see who they might be hiring.There have been people fired where I used to work because of serious FB issues.

 

 

[tigger398]

If I were to be hire for a company that asks for my fb account. They would get a diffrent account with pretty much nothing on it It's none of companys business what I put on my fb.

[Willa]

I also own a dumb phone. When it died a few months ago, I had a hard time finding a suitable replacement. Finally I found a refurbished one on the web that AT&T was selling for a prepaid. I bought it and had it converted to our present plan which is $60./mo for two phones and free calling in US. Hubby uses his a lot but I rarely use mine. The old phone had better battery life and was more user friendly. Sigh. We like the ones with large key pad numbers and a large read out, but that are small and light weight.

When texting first started we kept getting charged for messages. I called them and yelled at them that we don't know how to text or even how to receive messages, so to just discontinue the feature. I was ticked. Who knows what all they tack on to the bill.

So the cameras on the old ones are pretty crude with no memory card, etc. If we got a better one that is the only feature hubby would use other than the phone, but he wouldn't use it for selfies. I prefer more secure connections for internet.

[tigger398]

I want one of those phones, but can't afford it right now, and not for selfies.

[OakWood]

 

 

I dunno, ncn, that's  a little too high tech for me.  I still haven't mastered the clay tablet and stylus yet.

Selfies are just a fashion of the narcissistic generation that we have today. FB is appalling anyway, it's all me, me, me.

 

By the way Shiloh, my phone goes back to 2005 (I think) so I believe I've beaten you on that one. It only makes and receives phone calls and sends and receives text messages. The camera doesn't work and there is no internet or wi-fi access.

Don't get me wrong, I like technology but I have a particular distaste of mobile telephones. I think it's because I get annoyed by seeing people texting all the time and fed-up of hearing someone in the street who appears to be shouting to himself. Why people on phones shout, I've no idea. Maybe it's because they think that they have to shout because the person they are talking to is far, far away. Personally, I'm not interested in letting the general public hear my private conversations. I'm not important enough for my private life to be of any interest to them but everybody else thinks that their own lives are!

 

Rant over.

 

 

I ran into a person like that yesterday in a convenience store.  He came up behind me, yelling into his phone (in some Indian dialect yet).  After multiple dirty looks I turned around and asked him if he was deaf.  He just kept on shouting so, apparently, he was.  I DESPISE people who talk loudly into their phones in public and especially those who carry on four-letter-word laced one sided conversations in public places.  I WILL tell them I don't want to hear it.  I've concluded that some people (and there aren't many) aren't smart enough to be trusted with a cell phone.

 

 

Okay, I need educating here.

In Britain we call them 'mobiles'. I'm confused. What's a cell anyway and what have prisons got to do with phones?

[coheir]

mobiles are the same as a cell or cell phone same as mobile phone.

 

I heard a day ago the republication passed a bill that employers can not use your FB page to hire or fire a person. I heard it on tv ( which I recently got last month. so not sure How good the reporting was.