This is not me by the way and is an old acquaintance I know who titled her F Book post with this "Loving Life" photograph that got her into trouble at work. She posted a scenery photo when out visiting clients and she was not quite where she was supposed to be and hence the trouble she now faces.
I know people love their social media, but come on you have to be smart about it if you have everyone including Tom ,Dick and Harry following you. One of her work colleagues or her bosses picked it up and she is basically being worked out the company. Next month her targets she has to achieve are not exactly realistic and she is on her way out. I told her I thought this was self inflicted and she needs to learn to not share her life with the world. Nobody cares what you are doing unless it is on company time and they want their staff to be working and not taking time out posting nonsense. I did not tell her, but I would presume this is not the first time she has done this and her bosses must have had enough. They flew her to the head office in Johannesburg to talk to her so they are very serious.
I am probably the last person to offer sympathy as I have never used F Book and still to this day do not have an account. If you are in my circle then I will phone you or use WhatsApp and that is it. I never understood the craze of F Book besides a personal bragging tool between family or friends highlighting their fake lives.
A few years ago someone I know who owns a company and who was regarded as wealthy, but his company was not doing so well so he was having to retrench staff members. Unbeknown to him his wife was posting updates of pictures highlighting the various building stages of their new luxury mansion that was being built. She posted photographs of their numerous overseas trips galivanting around the world and quite rightly this infuriated certain staff members. The staff were following their every move and they were idiots to think no one knew what they were doing.
The problem is the damage social media can cause even if you are innocently posting what you would deem harmless updates. The wife was eventually banned from posting such photographs which would have been a shock to her as she was most likely unaware how bad the business was doing. In her bubble she was showing her friends how great they were doing, but in reality it was the opposite living on credit they owed to everyone else.
The tax man uses various social media sites to do lifestyle audits and there are many instances of people being found out living above their means. Social media can be the downfall of so many people and why you need to think first before posting and who you have following you.
Social media can tell you so much about someone and in most cases those individuals are very shallow narrow minded individuals. From the outside looking in it looks like everyone is competing against each other trying to out do each other with how great their lives are. That is the impression I got and in many of the cases this is so far from reality. Loving life is not exactly loving life anymore as she will be unemployed in March.
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