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Have you ever looked to Facebook to see what your junior troops are doing? With Facebook not being as private as everyone wishes it was, young troops post potentially incriminating stuff.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 — Recruiter Muslim Nazari thought the 28-year-old applying for the sales manager position seemed too good to be true with his impressive resume and impeccable interview scores.
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Or if you are an employer have you ever looked to Facebook to disqualify an applicant?
If someone in the military posts a picture that is incriminating and that also violates the UCMJ, can that be enough to charge them? Such as underage drinking, vandalism, being at a black listed establishment, ect.
How do we as leaders address problems that arise due to social networking?
I use Facebook mainly to promote my wife's business and rarely post anything on it.
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 — Recruiter Muslim Nazari thought the 28-year-old applying for the sales manager position seemed too good to be true with his impressive resume and impeccable interview scores.
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It's an asset to leaders and junior troops. It helps the leadership get an unbiased "pulse" of their troops, and give the troops another way to approach their leadership if they have a professional FB account.
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This topic has been addressed numerous times. I would suggest searching the forums and reading some of the comments already shared on this subject.
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Well, then...I guess Ill start searching before starting a new one...I just came across that article and thought it was interesting...because before any formal school I always look up the instructors via social networking. Thank you though.
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SGT Ben Keen
No problem. Some of the existing discussions have some great points that you might find interesting. Personally, I feel social media is a total assest. I maintain several networks including Facebook for friends and family, LinkedIn for my professional friends and of course RallyPoint for my military connection. People just have to be smart on what they post.
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I agree with being smart with what you post, but we must also realize that we have young individuals who might of just graduated high school that post things that they shouldn't. Besides informing them that they shouldn't post that stuff due to operation security or whatever the reason, how do we prevent them from doing so?
Have you ever looked up one of your soldiers to see what kinds of things they posted? whether it be to see how their family is doing or to see what they do on their off time?
Have you ever looked up one of your soldiers to see what kinds of things they posted? whether it be to see how their family is doing or to see what they do on their off time?
I also know that kids now a days are a lot more tech savoy and know how to use Facebook better then us older folks, but a lot of people don't use privacy settings within Facebook leaving what they post for anyone to read.
I had a Marine one time post the exact date and time we were leaving for deployment, we made him remove it but at that point it was out there.
Family members post information about when their loved ones will be back from deployments or where they are ect. I'm just curious how everyone views and deals with social media in this manner.
I know that we can only control so much, but I know the op-sec annual training we get is really not that effective to show how Facebook can both be a positive and a negative.
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SGT Ben Keen
I actually friended a lot of my Soldiers during my time in the service. I felt it was important to have it as way for them to reach out to me and I used the privacy settings to keep them contained so that we didn't break the line between leader and subordinate.
Obviously, when you are discussing posts that contact information that can place service members in danger, you must take corrective actions to remind the junior service member as to why they cannot post things like that. But lets face it, the military can PowerPoint us all to death and back and some one will always post something dumb. It's one of those lead a horse to water but can't make it drink type of things. Social Media is here to stay and for better or worse, service members will use it. Like I said in another discussion, all Facebook as done is taken something that Soldiers have done since the first Army was formed and make it easier to share. Service members are good at a lot of things, including complaining. :)
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Agreed, and good point. Soldiers need to be far more cautious these days when it comes to their online behavior. I also think it's a bit upsetting when I see NCOs and Soldiers becoming Facebook "friends." We need to provide leadership, not friendship.
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