Blog 4 - Social media
Social media is extremely risky business. The blog posts that I have read, provided by the SSSC 23 Things challenge, have heightened my understanding that it is extremely important to keep my personal and professional social media accounts as separate as possible. This is something that I have not been great at in the past, for example I have added people I have met at work on Facebook as soon as I meet them and I have created a Whatsapp group with colleagues at our first day of training. These sort of behaviours open an individual up to being challenged further down the line for something said or posted on these social media platforms. Even if the thing posted is harmless, it could be interpreted wrongly by another individual. All of my previous jobs have been within the hospitality sector and therefore the consequences have been less severe than they would be now that I have entered the professional healthcare industry. Therefore I have been, and will continue to, fo...