{"id":2175,"date":"2012-03-06T03:58:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T03:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bme2.flywheelsites.com\/blog\/how-to-violate-social-media-ethics-live-to-regret-it\/"},"modified":"2020-10-27T16:18:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T16:18:34","slug":"how-to-violate-social-media-ethics-live-to-regret-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benchmarkemail.com\/in\/how-to-violate-social-media-ethics-live-to-regret-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Violate Social Media Ethics &#038; Live to Regret It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ui.benchmarkemail.com\/email-marketing\/Features-Social-Media\">social media<\/a> sphere, Andy Warhol\u2019s quote that \u201cin the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes\u201d should have an amendment that adds \u201c&#8230; and have to apologize for it for the rest of their lives.\u201d The availability of worldwide broadcast of any impetuous, ill-advised or outright sophomoric rant on social media by anyone equipped with an internet connection has triggered a regrettable parade of viral clowns whose only hope for a somewhat normal life is to have plastic surgery and move to Nuuk, Greenland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prepare for the Death Threats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When two Gainesville, FL girls recently made the decision to post a rabidly and incoherently racist video on YouTube, they lacked the prescience to realize that the simple act of uploading would soon result in their being forced to drop out of high school and receive police protection against the avalanche of death threats. The Gainesville girls are not the first nor will they be the last to post racist videos that they will have to live down for all eternity: A UCLA student\u2019s tirade against Asian cellphone addicts in the Library added \u201cooooh chingchong linglong tingtong\u201d to the American vernacular.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gallery of Numbskulls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, racism is not the only social media vector whereby foot gets permanently embedded in mouth:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Judith Griggs<\/b> \u2013 Insisted that everything on the net is public domain to justify her theft of a freelance writer\u2019s work<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/benchmarkemail.com\/blog\/no-no-christoforo-ocean-marketings-epic-fail-in-online-courtesy\">Paul Christoforo<\/a><\/b> \u2013 Promotional customer service person who mercilessly flamed a complaining customer<\/li>\n<li><b>Kenneth Cole<\/b> \u2013 Tied the Cairo uprising with the new spring fashion collection in a tweet<\/li>\n<li><b>Ashton Kutcher<\/b> \u2013 Railed against Joe Paterno\u2019s firing with no knowledge of the Penn State child abuse scandal<\/li>\n<li><b>Gilbert Gottfried<\/b> \u2013 Cracked jokes at the <a href=\"https:\/\/benchmarkemail.com\/blog\/displaying-sensitivity-to-the-japanese-disaster-in-future-emails\">Japanese tsunami disaster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><b>Bob Parsons<\/b> \u2013 CEO of GoDaddy posted a video of himself shooting an elephant<\/li>\n<li><b>Jabar Gaffney<\/b> \u2013 Washington Redskins player tweeted a fan urging him to \u201ckill urself\u201d<\/li>\n<li><b>Chris Brown<\/b> \u2013 Pretty well everything he\u2019s ever posted<\/li>\n<li><b>Anthony Weiner<\/b> \u2013 New York congressman lived up to his name by tweeting photos of his&#8230; er&#8230; you know<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and even the official <b>Chrysler<\/b> Twitter account chastised Detroit motorists for not knowing how to drive, complete with f-bomb.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Eternal Tattoo of Social Media Indiscretion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is quite obvious that none of these social media pariahs could possibly answer the question \u201cwhat were you thinking?\u201d Empowered and\/or hypnotized by the ability to have their skewed perspectives find a global audience, they immortalize spurious thoughts that should never have made it past the second neuron. Perhaps it is because they temporarily phase-shift into a dimension where uttering stupidities is a positive; or they think they\u2019re being funny; or they suffer from terminal anger management issues; or they believe that their audience will agree with them \u201cfor speaking the truth\u201d in what they see as an overly politically correct world. Whatever the justification, the result is that their impulsive mistake will identify them forever, much as an ardent romantic who tattoos a lover\u2019s name across their foreheads and proceeds to break up with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Youthful Prank?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyone raised in the social media generation might see online discourse just as integral to daily life as any other form of conversation, therefore failing to grasp the essential difference of stating a bigoted, ignorant, impetuous or otherwise socially unacceptable comment over the breakfast table for the benefit of a sibling versus online where millions may reprimand and castigate you. Placing anything online, whether it be a blog comment or a YouTube video, will exist for all eternity as a testament to either your wisdom or your buffoonery. Just like a youthful prank can result in a criminal record that will haunt you in your future job searches, your social media indiscretion can imprint you as a dolt schlub until you escape this mortal coil.<\/p>\n<p>About a year ago, Google\u2019s CEO stated that people should be automatically entitled to change their names in order to detach themselves from their social media histories. The Gainesville girls and many other social media lepers might find that solution to be preferable to living the rest of their lives facing \u201coh, you\u2019re the one who&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s social media sphere, Andy Warhol\u2019s quote that \u201cin the future everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes\u201d should have an amendment that adds \u201c&#8230; and have to apologize for it for the rest of their lives.\u201d The availability of worldwide broadcast of any impetuous, ill-advised or outright sophomoric rant on social media&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Violate Social Media Ethics &amp; 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