Negative buzz ‘coming back to haunt you’
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- When an employee at a McDonald’s in Sweden upset her boss, he fired her.
She’d “blogged really negatively about her workplace” so her supervisor responded in kind on his public Fa$ebook page.
To his regret.
Because once something goes online, that’s where it stays resulting, potentially, in ‘negative buzz‘, something Carole Gay, from the French internet providers association AFA, says needs to be countered.
Solution? A law to give net users “the option to have old data about themselves deleted,” says the story.
“This right-to-forget would force online and mobile firms to dispose of e-mails and text messages after an agreed length of time or on the request of the individual concerned”, it says.
Deep fried cockroach
In Japan for the past couple of years, “several ‘kids’ have gotten into hot water for posting their ‘exploits’ at their part-time workplace on their Blog/SNS site,” says Just My Two Cents in a Reader’s Write to the McDonald’s story, going on >>>
These exploits have ranged from the deep fried cockroach cooked in the frenchfries fryer, to a Pizza delivery kid who showed a house with rocks (after work), because he didn’t like the way they responded to him during the delivery.
What’s sad in most of these cases, is that these kids do not realize that the information that they put up on the site, is not as anonymous as they think, and there are enough people with much too much time on their hands, that will take to time to figure out who the perpetrator is, and tell the store. And to add insult to injury, many of these kids get expelled from school, even if it was a fake stunt that they played, to brag to their friends.
There was even a case, where a young girl (jail-bait @ 15yrs old) bragged about her sexual escapades with her collage age boyfriend (21 yrs old), on her blog site (with some pictures- faces were hidden though), and even stated about how her boyfriend liked “her youth”. This information fueled a so-called witch-hunt for the boyfriend, and when it turned out that the boyfriend was a tutor at the girls local cram school, there were people calling up the cram school asking them if the school taught their tutors to be petaphiles.
“People (young and old, part-time workers or employers) need to learn that what they or someone related to them say on the net, can and most likely will come back to haunt them,” adds the post.
..… and identi.ca
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responded in kind – McDonald’s worker fired for blog post, January 18, 2010
negative buzz – France proposes online censorship law, January 11, 2010
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