SUMMARY:
- Dr. Profeta looks his deceased patients
up on social media so that he can retain his humanity and understand that those
who have passed away were individuals with their own dreams, hobbies, plans,
family, and friends. The
doctor is sure that he at least owes this to the
relatives and loved ones who he’s about to deliver the worst message to.
- Initially, banks were curious about
your job, income, and typical expenditures. But nowadays, they even look at
your friend lists! Apparently, in particular circles, experts believe that your
habits and personality traits are as crucial as the size of your income when a
lending decision is at stake.
- Potential landlords might also scope
out your social media to find out more about you. By checking out your
accounts, they can see you when you're off guard.
- According to Business News Daily, these
days more than 70% of employers use social media as an essential part of their
screening process. That's a major increase from 60% in 2016.
- in the IT sphere, 76% of hiring
managers tend to check an applicant’s social media. In sales, the figures are
closer to 65%. About 59% of employers who work in retail and 56% of those who
deal with manufacturing visit candidates' social networking accounts.
- Some embassies may visit your social media
accounts as well. This way, they can pick out individuals with inappropriate
behavior or views on life.
well hi
you know sites like Facebook Twitter or
Instagram are designed to connect people
with their family and friends I mean why
else is it called social media you're
there to socialize right but believe it
or not your profiles can attract some
pretty unexpected visitors
take for example emergency room
physician dr. Luis Profeta in his recent
post on LinkedIn he explained why he
checks out his patients Facebook pages
not every single one of them but just
those who didn't quite pull through in
the ER doctor Profeta does it before
informing their relatives of their
passing it might seem strange at first
but you have to understand that in
certain lines of work specialists
eventually get used to seeing the darker
signs of life some professionals like
doctors or police officers sometimes
forget that their patients or crime
victims are also people it's just so
easy to get desensitized to these sort
of things when it's part of your day to
day job
that's why dr. Profeta looks his
deceased patients up on social media so
that he can retain his humanity and
understand that those who have passed
away were individuals with their own
dreams hobbies plans family and friends
the doctor is sure that he at least owes
this to the relatives and loved ones who
he's about to deliver the worst message
to this story is undoubtedly very moving
but dr. Profeta isn't the only person
who can look through people's social
media without them knowing it there are
many other we list tragic situations
when someone secretly peeks in at your
profile and they include banks credit
bureaus and other financial
organizations may be very interested in
your social media life let's admit that
pretty much everyone these days has tons
of personal information on the internet
and financial companies use the data
they get from your social media accounts
to estimate the risks of giving you a
loan or
providing you with insurance initially
banks were curious about your job income
and typical expenditures but nowadays
they even look at your friend lists
apparently in particular circles experts
believe that your habits and personality
traits are as crucial as the size of
your income when a lending decision is
at stake besides some financial
organizations use your social media
accounts as an important part of their
security and identity checks they claim
that this can help prevent loan fraud
potential landlords might also scope out
your social media to find out more about
you on some level it makes sense by
checking out your accounts they can see
you when you're off guard
for example if you post a bunch of
pictures of crazy house parties you like
to throw then they probably won't want
you as a tenant in their rental property
besides some applicants might not
mention that they have pets as a way to
get out of paying the pet fee but if
your potential landlord sees all those
selfies you post with your rambunctious
pup then they'll know if you lied on the
application or they might choose not to
consider you at all especially if they
have a no pet policy do you think this
is a good way to decide whether or not
to take someone on as a tenant some
would argue that information posted
online can be very misleading let's take
that house party example again do a few
pictures online automatically mean that
this person is going to be noisy all the
time or totally wrecked the place not
necessarily plus a person can absolutely
have a clean and proper social media
profile if they decide not to post about
their hardcore party lifestyle just
saying
besides banks and landlords there's yet
another group that really loves scoping
out your social media profile and that's
potential employers according to
business news daily these days more than
70% of employers use social media as an
essential part of their screening
process that's a major increase from 60%
in 2016 and if we talk about 2006
checking an apple
and via their social media was almost
unheard of only 11% of employers did
this a decade ago there are several
reasons why a company will want to visit
your social media account first of all
they want to verify your identity to do
this they try to find your profiles on
different sites and check if all of them
are linked to you secondly and kind of
like with landlords employers need to
know if you've got some bad habit or
questionable behavior jokes and poor
taste or inappropriate photos can be the
reason why you don't get a job offer but
don't worry they're not just trying to
find proof that you aren't a good
candidate for the job in fact the
biggest thing that hiring managers are
trying to find is something that
supports your qualification for the
offered position for example they can
check if you have a professional
portfolio interestingly enough according
to research conducted by the site career
builder only 21 percent of employers
visit your social media accounts to find
some juicy details that will justify
them turning you down
however this social media check thing
varies depending on the field for
example in the IT fear 76 percent of
hiring managers tend to check an
applicant's social media in sales the
figures are closer to 65% about 59% of
employers who work in retail and 56% of
those who deal with manufacturing visit
candidates social networking accounts
and here's the bad news
49% of hiring managers stated that they
repeatedly found different examples of
negative information when they were
screening potential employees and what
might this evidence be well provocative
photos bad-mouthing about ex bosses
discriminatory comments and even lousy
communication skills can lead to a
person being rejected for a job position
now rumor has it that some embassies may
visit your social media accounts as well
especially if you're trying to immigrate
to their country or if you're applying
for a student visa
first of all Embassy workers might be
trying to confirm some facts
if I'd in your application like your
relationship status education or work
experience also looking at your social
media can help them conduct security
checks this way they can pick out
individuals with inappropriate behavior
or views on life so posting angry and
violent content having all your profiles
on privacy lockdown or showing any kind
of disrespect may be the reason why you
get rejected for a visa and last but
certainly not least you know how they
say that Big Brother keeps an eye on you
as well well some people believe that if
anyone posts any sort of information
about security threats even if it's
jokingly then security agencies will
find a way to fish them out of the
world's two and a half billion social
media users whether or not that's fact
is probably classified so the golden
rule regarding social media and your
image is if you don't have something
nice to say about someone then come
check with me just kidding so do you
know any other people or organizations
that can snoop on your social media
accounts add your own examples to the
list in the comments down below remember
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