Comments on: And yet another social networking D’oh! moment http://blog.usefullyemployed.co.uk/2009/06/25/and-yet-another-social-networking-doh-moment/ An Employment Law Blog by a UK barrister Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:37:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: lawminx http://blog.usefullyemployed.co.uk/2009/06/25/and-yet-another-social-networking-doh-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-16447 lawminx Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:18:53 +0000 http://blog.usefullyemployed.co.uk/?p=365#comment-16447 I wonder if this will have a chilling effect on some bits of Twitter?? In any event what a spectacularly MONGIE thing to have done - so much so that my toes are curling at frankly anatomically impossible angles....! I wonder if this will have a chilling effect on some bits of Twitter??

In any event what a spectacularly MONGIE thing to have done – so much so that my toes are curling at frankly anatomically impossible angles….!

]]> By: Simon Bradshaw http://blog.usefullyemployed.co.uk/2009/06/25/and-yet-another-social-networking-doh-moment/comment-page-1/#comment-16076 Simon Bradshaw Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:48:44 +0000 http://blog.usefullyemployed.co.uk/?p=365#comment-16076 The person who made the original tweet <a href="http://www.theconnor.net/" rel="nofollow">gives his side of the story here</a>. This could of course just be damage limitation, but he does make the valid point that he posted what he claimed to be a sarcastic remark that would be understood by his circle of twitter followers without thinking that it might be seen by others and taken more literally. Even so, the lesson remains: never say anything on a public forum you don't want to be attributed to you under its literal meaning. The person who made the original tweet gives his side of the story here. This could of course just be damage limitation, but he does make the valid point that he posted what he claimed to be a sarcastic remark that would be understood by his circle of twitter followers without thinking that it might be seen by others and taken more literally.

Even so, the lesson remains: never say anything on a public forum you don’t want to be attributed to you under its literal meaning.

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