When facebook is a total disadvantage

illudium_phosdex · Apr 11, 2013

Yeah, I don't post super serious stuff unless I have all the details and have discussed it with immediate family first.

Hope the surgery went well.

pgp_protector · Apr 11, 2013

My #1 Rule of Facebook.
Don't Friend Bosses / Coworkers, No good can ever come of it.
#2 Rule, Private on almost everything

QuiltAngel · Apr 11, 2013

The day my husband broke his ankle a few weeks ago was interesting. I had not posted anything on FB and was not going to until after he had surgery. In the meantime we had let our family know about it so they could pray. Hubby had to be transferred from out local hospital to one an hour away. Between the time he called 911 and was out of surgery was 7 hours. While I was driving to the hospital an hour away, I looked at my messages on my phone at a stoplight. I was already getting facebook messages asking how he was.

Since we live in a rural area, the news had traveled rather fast. While he was in surgery, I went ahead and posted something about it because of the inquiries I was getting already.

I appreciate FB and everything, but there are times I wish when people hear something that they realize that the person may not be able to reply as soon as they would like. In this case, we saw a doctor in one ER, X-rays and a reduction of the area with splint. Then a transfer an hour away. Then it was making sure he was fit for surgery and to see the surgeon as well as to assemble the OR personnel. Forms to sign and all that jazz.

I would not have had time to post anything until I did.

illudium_phosdex · Apr 11, 2013

I'm sure my older brother was feeling similar frustration today after taking his wife to the hospital and dealing with all that only to find when he finally had a moment to breathe that he had a gazillion messages on his phone from concerned family members wondering what was going on.

PreachersWife2004 · Apr 12, 2013

pgp_protector said:
My #1 Rule of Facebook.
Don't Friend Bosses / Coworkers, No good can ever come of it.
#2 Rule, Private on almost everything

I have plenty of my coworkers on my facebook. Probably 30 of the 80 people who I work with. I am a supervisor over at least 24 of them. The rest I'm either on equal footing with or they are my supervisors.

Never had an issue with any of them, until the two that screwed up. That's the only time.

The key is to remember that other people see your facebook, no matter how private you have it set. Potential employers look at things on your facebook. I had an interviewer ask me once "so you enjoy blues dancing?" I couldn't figure out how he'd know that until I realized that I post about going blues dancing on Thursdays. Imagine what an employer thinks when he sees pictures of potential hires partying up or talking about how wasted they got the night before...

Tangible · Apr 12, 2013

Most of my coworkers are teen-age or twenty-something girls with foul mouths, petty bickering, baby-daddy drama, and the like. They like things like 'Bad Girl's Club'. Honestly I don't care to see all that played out daily on FB.

PreachersWife2004 · Apr 12, 2013

Tangible said:
Most of my coworkers are teen-age or twenty-something girls with foul mouths, petty bickering, baby-daddy drama, and the like. They like things like 'Bad Girl's Club'. Honestly I don't care to see all that played out daily on FB.

Yeah, I had a couple like that. I had one who continuously swore on every post I made. Had to take him off. Then I had one who would get smartypants rude to any friends commenting on controversial statuses. Had to remove him too.

Luther073082 · Apr 12, 2013

Tangible said:
Most of my coworkers are teen-age or twenty-something girls with foul mouths, petty bickering, baby-daddy drama, and the like. They like things like 'Bad Girl's Club'. Honestly I don't care to see all that played out daily on FB.

We're in totally different places of employment. I doubt half my co-workers know what Facebook is.

Honestly one of my jobs is to go rescue people who accidentally move their task bar on their computer and for certain other people to scan and attach files to E-mails for them so they can send it to a client. (they still don't know how to do this, and don't really want to learn.)

I've been here for about 8 years now and I can tell you that my company, was dragged into the 21st century kicking and screaming. I highly doubt most of the people here use computers much in their personal lives.

QuiltAngel · Apr 14, 2013

pgp_protector said:
You shall not steal ??
8th Commanment

No, this is the 8th Commandment:

Luther's Small Catechism.

The Eighth Commandment.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

What does this mean?--Answer.

We should fear and love God that we may not deceitfully belie, betray, slander, or defame our neighbor, but defend him, [think and] speak well of him, and put the best construction on everything.

pgp_protector · Apr 14, 2013

QuiltAngel said:
No, this is the 8th Commandment:

Luther's Small Catechism.

See that depends on how you count them.
(Why it's always best to just post the Text in the first place)

Ten Commandments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two different sets of 10 Commandments in the bible? - Yahoo!7 Answers
https://www.google.com/search?q=2+different+10+commandments

QuiltAngel · Apr 14, 2013

pgp_protector said:
See that depends on how you count them.
(Why it's always best to just post the Text in the first place)

Ten Commandments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two different sets of 10 Commandments in the bible? - Yahoo!7 Answers
https://www.google.com/search?q=2+different+10+commandments

This is a post in the Lutheran forum, so we are naturally going to use the numbering that we have learned. We here do know that others do not use the numbering we do.

When you read the commandments in Exodus, you will notice that they are not numbered either.

DaRev · Apr 14, 2013

pgp_protector said:
See that depends on how you count them.
(Why it's always best to just post the Text in the first place)https://www.google.com/search?q=2+different+10+commandments

Many make the mistake of breaking the first commandment into two parts. The first is "There shall be for you no other gods before Me. You shall not make any graven images... nor shall you bow down and worship them..." In other words, "you shall have no other gods so don't make any or place anything or anyone before Me." That is the first. The second is about calling upon His name and the third is about observing the Sabbath as a day of worship. They go on from there.

twin.spin · Apr 15, 2013

Luther073082 said:
I don't know that FB is and of itself the greatest offender of the 8th commandment. But I would agree it is broken the most there and pretty much everywhere on the internet.

The internet has allowed people to be complete jerks with very little to no societal punishment as a result. And so that's what happened to a lot of people.

The internet is a double edge sword. FB is a double edge sword.

When companies use FB in the way they are doing, its the edge of a sword which is going to be used in such way that is going to come down upon against the Christian.

People need to start waking up to what is happening now with FB is just a repackaging of what occurred in the "never could happen" with Lutheran's Germany of 1930's.

PreachersWife2004 · Apr 15, 2013

In terms of the original situation, the picture showed two employees breaking company policy and putting themselves at a safety risk. Had I not reported what I saw, and someone else reported it and also reported that I saw it, I would've been fired on the spot. And I knew that others had seen the picture and knew that I had seen it too. That type of stuff IS my business as a supervisor.

Now, I don't report when the associates go out drinking the night before and then call in sick the next day and what have you. But I'd probably not hire someone who would do that. What people fail to realize is that even when you're not on the clock, you still basically represent your company.

QuiltAngel · Apr 15, 2013

Well, in my field, people can and have lost their license for stuff put online such as Facebook. Welcome to the world of medicine where one best not post anything about work.

QuiltAngel · Apr 18, 2013

Yes, potential employers look at profiles on Facebook. I have a relative who has finally decided to post more about the projects she works on versus what she doesn't like about different types of jobs. I know that if I were an employer and noticed that she thought so many jobs were repetitive, redundant and boring, I would not want to hire her.

So, yes, there are some types of things one would not want to post on Facebook. On the other hand, lets not get paranoid either about everything we put on there.

If a potential employer doesn't like that I support the Constitution, love my cats, love my family and my grandson as well as any of my hobbies, then maybe I don't want to work for them either.

Now, if I were to go there and post things about my coworkers or my patients, then they have reason to be concerned. Posts about my patients could cause me to not get my license or to lose it when I do.

One has to know what to and what not to post.

PreachersWife2004 · Apr 18, 2013

QuiltAngel said:
Yes, potential employers look at profiles on Facebook. I have a relative who has finally decided to post more about the projects she works on versus what she doesn't like about different types of jobs. I know that if I were an employer and noticed that she thought so many jobs were repetitive, redundant and boring, I would not want to hire her.

So, yes, there are some types of things one would not want to post on Facebook. On the other hand, lets not get paranoid either about everything we put on there.

If a potential employer doesn't like that I support the Constitution, love my cats, love my family and my grandson as well as any of my hobbies, then maybe I don't want to work for them either.

Now, if I were to go there and post things about my coworkers or my patients, then they have reason to be concerned. Posts about my patients could cause me to not get my license or to lose it when I do.

One has to know what to and what not to post.

Exactly.

swinkler · Apr 21, 2013

"Many make the mistake of breaking the first commandment into two parts. "

I think it was a mistake for you to use the word mistake here.
Find "the ten commandments" in the bible.

PreachersWife2004 · Apr 21, 2013

swinkler said:
"Many make the mistake of breaking the first commandment into two parts. "

I think it was a mistake for you to use the word mistake here.
Find "the ten commandments" in the bible.

I think this warrants its own discussion.

FreeinChrist · Apr 21, 2013

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