THINK BEFORE YOU POST

Posts on social media can be confusing at times. People need to clarify specifically what they are conveying to the masses.  A good example occurred a few days ago. An individual showed a photo of a residence fire and posted it was their house.  Reading the post and looking at the photo it appeared this was their home, when in fact it WAS NOT. 

Now just because a person once lived in a certain residence at one time does not mean it’s theirs now or ever was owned by them in the past. 

What the post should have stated was that they had once lived there for a few short years. In fact why post some else’s unfortunate troubles at all.  When posting on social media you need to clarify just what you want to convey; write it out; read it over for content; think how another would interpret it before you hit the post button.  I’ve reread a few of my posts after I hit the post button and realized I needed to do an edit; which I did immediately. 

As I read that specific post that day it sounded like the individual was the home owner and not a past tenant.  I showed a few people the post; they too were under the same impression.  Think before you post is all I can say.  Secondly I felt the person had no rights in putting the incident on social media as it is not or ever was their property in the first place.  The property owner, I learned, did not want the unfortunate incident blabbered all over the social media world.  Newspaper stories and television news stories were sufficient.  I guess some people have no respect for other people or their privacy.  Please think before you post; would you want others blabbing your troubles to the world?  I’m sure you would not.  Remember there’s that old saying about what goes around will come around.  Don’t forget once something is put out on social media trying to correct it may not always work.  People only see and read what they want.  

Until next time....think before you write; reread once or twice; clarify what you’re conveying.