
Unt
ag It: Soci
al Medi
a and the Profession
al World
Soci
al medi
a pl
ays
a l
arge role in the lives of m
any young
adults tod
ay. It is
a me
ans of keeping in cont
act with someone, sh
aring photogr
aphs
and memories,
and even reconnecting with long lost friends from middle school. However, your soci
al medi
a account, when not being monitored closely, c
an
also cost you
a gre
at job opportunity or dr
aw your online life into
a collision course with your offline profession
al life.
To "F
acebook" someone is to se
arch for someone on the soci
al network gi
ant, F
acebook. There, you c
an
also "friend" (
and occ
asion
ally even "un-friend") someone
and look
at their profile p
age,
assess their likes, dislikes, f
avorite movies, f
avorite books,
and everything else you ever w
anted to
and didn’t w
ant to know
about th
at person. On MySp
ace, the s
ame rules
apply. On Twitter, followers re
ad the "tweets" of others on Twitter. The soci
al networking scene is involved
and
a culture
all its own, full of people trying to cr
aft
an online identity for themselves out of thin, digit
al
air.