10 Rules To Follow on the Internet

1) Don't be friends on Facebook with your boss. It could be really dangerous to mix private life with professionnal life, since everything you write on your Facebook  is particularly spied. For example, a  Connecticut woman was fired after disparaging her boss on Facebook.

2) Don't tweet on your personal life, your hobbies, the weather, what you are complaining about etc. People who are following you on Twitter want to find relevant information. Then make sure that people can retweet what you are saying, and that your tweets are valuable.

3) Don't post pictures where you are drunk. For instance, Caitlin Davis was fired from her job cheerleading for the New England Patriots when a picture of her appears on Facebook. She was next to a boy whose body was covered with phallic symbols. 

4) Don't misuse Facebook. A woman was called for work in Switzerland and she said she suffered from headaches and she needed to work at home. But when her facebook activity appears, she was immediately fired. She was utterly lying indeed !

5) Don't compare yourself to inanimate objects. Tania Dickinson compares her job at the New Zealand Social Development ministry to "a very expensive paperweight". She said she was really efficient in wasting time.Next day, she was fired.

6) Choose a safe password for each website you are logged in. Especially for social networks where keeping data private is really important. Avoid words from dictionnary. Avoid personal information that are easy to found like your birth date, your age.

7) Don't misbehave when you are in your workplace. It's the best way to lose your job and that what former Domino's Pizza learned.  A video was unveiled on Youtube where they were doing gross things to food that was served to customers. 

8) Don't make black humor on the Internet. Or at least, beware of tricky statements. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, voice of the Aflac duck made some jokes about the Japanese tsunami over Twitter and said "Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them". He was obviously fired.

9) Don't mess with celebrities. Jane Adams, star of HBO, skipped out on her $13.44 bill for restaurant check. When her server, Jon-Barrett Ingels, tweeted about it, her agent came back the next day to pay it. Ingels tweeted again about the lack of a tip, so Adams herself came back a month later to give a $3 tip. She complained to management and Ingels was fired.

10) Don't feed the trolls. Feeding the trolls on a Facebook page for instance means giving more chances for them to destroy your reputation. Just ignore them as much as possible.