Are You Politically Correct in Your Social Media Interactions?

Posted by Hersh Bhardwaj in Web Business Branding | 0 comments

Politically Incorrect

One of my best friend has a Facebook account, but only to keep in touch with mates. His engagement is limited merely to exchanging pleasantries. He has a bank job to keep, he says. And under the present circumstances where employers are desperately looking for a reason to fire staff, he can’t be found misplacing a vowel in a hard-learned foreign language.

Big brother is always watching.  In present scenario when even the most reluctant of business owners are drifting towards a social media engagement, whats the limit of political correctness?

A probable scenario can be a case of an Apple staffer ripping apart Windows 7 on a neutral forum. Or, more ,a Windower expressing his disappointment on his personal blog about the newest Microsoft application. Does he have the right to remain silent despite all his resentment only because he is paid by them? How far does that circle of political correctness expand up to? Where is the out-of-prison line?

An interesting case happened when a British police van was photographed by an alert citizen journalist. The van was parked by the police driver in disabled-only parking area. Now, the most embarrasing thing that could happen in that scenario happened- The cop in question asked the snapper to delete the picture.  Surprise, surprise, it was denied and posted online.

So, whats your theory about how far can you go? Can you be your flamboyant honest self when expressing opinion in online social circles? Can you evade the fear of being quoted, or, misquoted being politically incorrect? Would you deliberately separate your personal views, politically correct or not, from that of your company’s? ( we are talking about company owner’s, especially privately held enterprises)

Is web not about giving a face and a personality to your faceless company? So where is the borderline between you-  the opinionated individual, and, your company striving for  that spotless correct image?

Lets hear it.