Nothing irritates me more than the spreading of inaccurate spam rumors on social networking sites. Particularly when the person posting them is doing so as a professional, and using the rumors to further their own business model. So I've developed a habit of looking up the accurate information using Snopes.com, and commenting on posts with a link to the truth. I figure it's an easy, in your face, way to get my point across and encourage people to check their sources before facing public humiliation. Turns out, some professionals have very thin skins. My old boss sent me a message tonight with her panties in a twist.
"This is the second time you have called me out on my links as not accurate..better way to handle that would be to message me privately instead of posting on my link..better edicate!!"
Yup, that's how she spelled it. She's not a fan of spell check either. So now I'm twice as irritated. If you don't want me posting embarrassing comments regarding your link, then check your sources! It takes me all of 30 seconds most days to pull up snopes and do a most basic search. And I do it every single time I see a link or posting of some rumor or factoid that sounds even remotely suspicious. Which, if you have an ounce of common sense in your brain, is most of them.
So, to ease her troubled soul, I responded.
I was just posting the information where you could see it. Wasn't saying it was totally inaccurate, in fact it said many of the points were accurate. I just thought you would want the real info to back it up. In the future, I won't post any more snopes links on your status. I just like to give people the ability to check the information. There are far too many people in this world who believe anything they see on facebook without checking to see where it came from. It results in a great deal of spam circulating. I thought, that as a business professional you would want the truth. I apologize if I offended you.
I was even fairly polite. But inside I'm seething. If you're a professional, I feel you have a responsibility to check your sources and not spread bogus information. Especially if you're in the health care field and spreading rumors to your patients via Facebook that are salacious and designed to scare people into your "diet plan". It's easy to check sources. It's responsible to check sources. It's bad business to spread false rumors under the guise of "educating" people.
And for fuck's sake, learn how to spell etiquette!
"This is the second time you have called me out on my links as not accurate..better way to handle that would be to message me privately instead of posting on my link..better edicate!!"
Yup, that's how she spelled it. She's not a fan of spell check either. So now I'm twice as irritated. If you don't want me posting embarrassing comments regarding your link, then check your sources! It takes me all of 30 seconds most days to pull up snopes and do a most basic search. And I do it every single time I see a link or posting of some rumor or factoid that sounds even remotely suspicious. Which, if you have an ounce of common sense in your brain, is most of them.
So, to ease her troubled soul, I responded.
I was just posting the information where you could see it. Wasn't saying it was totally inaccurate, in fact it said many of the points were accurate. I just thought you would want the real info to back it up. In the future, I won't post any more snopes links on your status. I just like to give people the ability to check the information. There are far too many people in this world who believe anything they see on facebook without checking to see where it came from. It results in a great deal of spam circulating. I thought, that as a business professional you would want the truth. I apologize if I offended you.
I was even fairly polite. But inside I'm seething. If you're a professional, I feel you have a responsibility to check your sources and not spread bogus information. Especially if you're in the health care field and spreading rumors to your patients via Facebook that are salacious and designed to scare people into your "diet plan". It's easy to check sources. It's responsible to check sources. It's bad business to spread false rumors under the guise of "educating" people.
And for fuck's sake, learn how to spell etiquette!