Watch that post on your boss...

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Rohit Ghai is contemplating surrendering his Facebook profile. Not because he is bored, but because he just can’t be himself there any more. “It all happened the moment I accepted my boss’s friend request.

Now I can’t write anything about the company or my immediate on my posts. They keep a constant check on employees’ wall and my colleagues often get pulled up for making some unfavourable comments,” says Rohit.
Posts on social networking websites can actually backfire. Unmindfully, youngsters often speak their mind on Facebook or Twitter and fail to notice that their superiors and colleagues have access to their comments. Of late, many HR department officials in various companies have started following their employee online activities. “We know that young people have a tendency to post their views online. While doing so, many a time they forget and cross their limit and post something that maligns their employers. We want to avoid any such circumstances. And at times, we check a potential candidate’s profiles before taking them on-board just to see if they are habitual offenders when it comes to writing against their employers,” says Neetu Saini, HR executive at an export house.
But young people are alert too. PR manager Harpreet Marwah has stopped putting any posts on his Facebook as his boss is on his friends list. “My job is more important for me than my opinions. If I have to vent my anger towards my boss or the management, I would rather do it verbally,” he says.
With advancement of Internet, each and every small detail we online has an audience.
“Now, we have to be so controlled in writing anything on our profiles. Earlier, I would often share my work-related problems with my friends online. But I can’t do that any longer” says Saurav Puri, a software developer.