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The Unseen Consequences of Airing

Your Dirty Laundry on Facebook

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Originally, Facebook was a university exclusive site to meet other students

(preferably single)

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Posting personal information was a must-have if you wanted to meet other

students

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But before long, the demographics shifted and the site expanded, and with it the need for a new type of

social censorship

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What you put on Facebook, can be used against you in multiple

ways

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With a market of over 500 million active

users in 7 years, Facebook became a #1 site for advertisers

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Ever wonder how the advertisements for your Facebook page are chosen?

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These advertisements aren’t random

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Advertisers are getting their information from YOU

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How are they getting it?

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“Facebook used profile information (age, gender, location, interests, etc) to deliver individualized ads to users’

screens.” –Martin, Fabos and Campbell, 2010

Your information is being

bought and sold back to you through advertisements

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if it has a price.

Bottom line,your personal information

is not personal…

With over 60 million status updates occurring on Facebook daily, it’s not hard to

see why advertisers would exchange in market profiling –Statistics Facebook

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Advertisers aren’t the only people researching your Facebook

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80% of companies use social media for recruitment—Socialnomics.com

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Whether you are being scouted for a job, or applying for one, an employer is checking

up on you via your Facebook activity.

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Statuses, photos, comments and tags are never permanently deleted. They are Facebook

property forever.

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This means the inebriated participation on Facebook by any of its 250 million active mobile

users is permanent.

70% of U.S recruiters report they have rejected candidates due to photos and information found online

– Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times

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53% of employers said a candidate was not hired

due to content posted containing inappropriate photos and information - The Blog Herald

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44% said photos of drinking or

using drugs hindered the candidate

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Everybody say, “You’re never getting promoted!”

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It’s easy for people to overlook things on Facebook that can get them in trouble”

- Joseph Donzelli, TechNewsDaily

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Social medias like Facebook negate time

and space.

A person no longer needs to be within proximity to sustain a relationship

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Bob Rosenwein of Lehigh University

has found that people communicating online

Often fall for each other in

about a week.

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Thanks to social medias like Facebook, “ a partner can easily carry on an affair in the same house, even in the same room.” — Jennifer Ludden, Can Social Media Break Up a Marriage

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1 out of every 5 divorces cite Facebook as the cause for the break-up

--Cid Carver

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We are living in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing.

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The answer isn’t simply to refrain from using the Internet,

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But to be smart about how you use it.

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Think before you Post.

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We don’t have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we DO it.”—Erik

Qualman

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Are you DOing it right?

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Credits

All images are licensed under the Creative Common Non-Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 Agreement, as well as sourced from Flickr, Tumblr and

socialnomics.com

By: Shelby Newton