Social media bloopers

I'm a firm believer in trying to make sure you don't make mistakes on social media that could cost you your job one day. So, here are some examples of social media gone bad (hopefully we all learn a lesson from these people) (The following are examples found at Mashable.com):

• Ashley Payne, a teacher in Barrow County, Georgia, was asked to resign from her job at Apalachee High School in August 2009 because of photographs and status updates she posted to Facebook while on vacation. The problem? The photos showed her getting drunk.
• In February, Representative Christopher Lee (R- NY) resigned from his post afterGawker published emails the married congressman sent to women on Craigslist. These emails included photos of a shirtless Lee flexing his muscles for the camera. The Buffalo-area representative resigned less than four hours after Gawker posted the emails and photo.
• In March 2009, 22-year old Connor Riley was offered a job at Cisco. Her first instinct -- to tweet about her new opportunity -- is pretty common for most people of her generation. Unfortunately, Riley's tweet mentioned that taking a "fatty paycheck" would come at the expense of "hating the work." A Cisco employee responded to her tweet, offering to pass her sentiments along to the hiring manager. Riley lost the job before it was even started.
• Note to self: Publishing mis-deeds in the workplace is a great way to lose a job. That's the lesson that some former Domino's Pizza employees learned, and we're glad they did. A few workers filmed themselves doing gross things to food - food that was probably served to customers. They then posted this video to YouTube, because it's all about the lulz. Fortunately, some investigative work on the part of Consumerist tracked down the employees behind the video. Domino's fired the employees.

The following is from Lindsay Olson's blog:

Even folks whose job it is to use social media are not immune to the repercussions:

• In March, Scott Bartosiewicz, an employee at New Media Strategies, the social media agency of record for Chrysler, tweeted a derogatory messageabout Detroit drivers from the official Chrysler Twitter account, costing his agency its relationship with Chrysler
• This month, The Redner Group, a small PR firm led by Jim Redner, was fired by client 2K games after a frustrated Redner tweeted a threat to withhold review copies of the popular game Duke Nukem Forever if reviewers don’t offer more positive reviews.
• Two years ago, while on his way to give a presentation about digital media to FedEx communications employees, Ketchum VP James Andrews tweeted a derogatory comment about travel to Memphis (where FedEx is headquartered). The tweet rankled FedEx employees who called Andrews out and extracted an apology from him. He kept his job.

In all of these cases, employees are exhibiting poor judgment and making poor choices in expressing themselves. Social media is exposing their mistakes to the public and to their employer.

Hopefully these examples help us to watch what we put on social media. i know the thought of losing a job because of something I posted scares me. Does it scare anyone else?

(All pictures found separate from other sources)