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McKenna Pitman

English 1201

L. Slanker

20 October 2019

Working Bibliography

Allton, Mike. “Personal vs. Business When It Comes to Social Media.” ​Social Media Today​, 11

May 2013,

www.socialmediatoday.com/content/personal-vs-business-when-it-comes-social-media​​. “....

taking over personal lives and forever changing the way people communicate.”

“Can I Be Fired for What I Post on Social Media?” ​Mathew & George​, 12 Sept. 2018,

www.caemployeelawyer.com/can-employer-fire-post-social-media/​​. Posting on social

media can seem harmless, until your boss calls you into the office to discuss your last Tweet.

Since the advent of social media sites, many employees have learned one lesson the hard way:

yes, employers can in fact fire workers for things they post online.

Hollingsworth, Sam. “Top 9 Benefits of Social Media for Your Business.” ​Search Engine

Journal,​ ​

Search Engine Journal, 22 Jan. 2019,

www.searchenginejournal.com/social-media-business-benefits/286139/#close​​. “Once a
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communication experiment that later evolved into platforms figuring out just how much personal

data people would make available to their “digital networks,” social media remains a huge part

of Americans’ everyday lives.” (Counterclaim).

Jackson, Nicholas. “Infographic: How Employers Use Social Media to Hire and Fire.” ​The

Atlantic​, Atlantic Media Company, 15 Aug. 2011,

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/infographic-how-employers-use-social-

media-to-hire-and-fire/243599/​. ​ This website explains what employers look through to find out

about a person through social media. This article suggest that people should google themselves

to be aware of what their jobs might fine.

“More Than Half of Employers Have Found Content on Social Media That Caused Them NOT

to

Hire a Candidate, According to Recent CareerBuilder Survey - Aug 9, 2018.” ​Press

Room Career Builder,​

http://press.careerbuilder.com/2018-08-09-More-Than-Half-of-Employers-Have-Found-Content-

on-Social-Media-That-Caused-Them-NOT-to-Hire-a-Candidate-According-to-Recent-CareerBui

lder-Survey​. “​ and manufacturing (73 percent) are more likely than those in retail/non-retail

sales* (59 percent) to do social networking digging on potential job candidates. But it's not just

the social sites that are fair game – 66 percent of employers say they use search engines to

conduct their research on potential job candidates” This website shows who looks through social

media before considering a hire.

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Price-Mitchell, Marilyn, et al. “Teens Discuss Disadvantages of Social Networking.” ​Roots of

Action​, 7 Sept. 2019,

https://www.rootsofaction.com/disadvantages-of-social-networking/​. This website importance is

to show the disadvantages of social media and social media networking. One example of a

disadvantage is “ … ​sometimes friends use their phones so much that it is difficult to have an

actual conversation with them. Sometimes friends can get so socially attached to something such

as a blog or gaming console that they lose touch with friends, creating small gaps and holes in

close friendships/relationships.”

University of Antwerp. “Social Media References in Newspapers.” ​Taylor & Francis​,

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17512786.2014.894327​. “We now have all

the information we need at the touch of an app and most people now get their news information

online, specifically from social media.” Social media is a main key of how people consume daily

news. Everything that goes on in the world is something that is seen on social media with in

seconds.