{"id":161954,"date":"2016-04-17T09:13:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T07:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=161954"},"modified":"2016-04-17T09:15:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T07:15:05","slug":"how-to-avoid-getting-fired-over-facebook-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/161954-how-to-avoid-getting-fired-over-facebook-posts.html","title":{"rendered":"How to avoid getting fired over Facebook posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Eastern Cape principal faces dismissal after he called a local politician a\u00a0c**t on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Sunday Times, Hankey Senior Secondary School principal Godfrey Thorne called Edmund van Vuuren, a member of the provincial legislature, the offending word after the\u00a0education portfolio committee found that 134 girls at his school got pregnant last year.<\/p>\n<p>Van Vuuren reported Thorne to the Eastern Cape education department, which has resulted in an investigation into\u00a0Thorne&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that offensive Facebook posts can lead to a company or government department dismissing an employee, and provided guidelines about how to act on the social media platform.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">How to act on Facebook<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Be mindful of what you post<\/li>\n<li>Message private matters instead of posting on your wall<\/li>\n<li>Reply to comments, especially if they are questions<\/li>\n<li>Spark interesting comments with others<\/li>\n<li>Post with caution<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t make friends with strangers<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t tag your friends in &#8216;unglam&#8217; shots<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t vent about your work<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t flame others<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Facebook<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/161928-watch-out-for-fake-pravin-gordhan-facebook-account.html\">Watch out for fake Pravin Gordhan Facebook account<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/161622-facebook-ai-means-talking-images-and-better-image-search.html\">Facebook AI means talking images and better image search<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Eastern Cape principal faces dismissal after he called a local politician a c**t on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161,405],"class_list":["post-161954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161956,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161954\/revisions\/161956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}