Social media etiquette guidelines include: - Be considerate when responding to others' relationship status changes or spoiling TV shows. - Avoid oversharing details about your meals, locations, or drunken/emotional states. - On Facebook, don't excessively ask for likes, over post, or share when upset/angry. - Think carefully about your audience, potential to offend, and whether a private conversation would be better before posting on social media.

1. Social Media Etiquette
Here are some Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media

2. A Little Background Info
 Over 50% of online users use social media.
 The three most popular are
 Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin.
 Social media sites can be for personal or
professional use but should not be combined

3. Here Are Some General
Guidelines
 Condolences on changing your Facebook status from
"Married" to "Single.“ Before you do anything, ask yourself if it's
appropriate to "like" the fact that someone's relationship has ultimately ended.
 Spoilers There is nothing more hated than spoiling television season finales for
your friends and followers.
 Food No one cares about what you ate last night unless Oprah's personal chef
cooked it
 Check In no one needs to know where you are at every minute of the day
 Drunk Posting Once you've graduated college and/or had a child, it's time for
you to grow out of drunk tweeting/facebooking.

4. First Lets Look at Facebook
• Don’t ask people to like your status
• Don’t over post
• Keep hashtags to a minimum
• When tragedy strikes, either personally or in the world,
keep posts minimal
• Never post when you are exhausted, angry, after
drinking, or when upset
• Never post anything online that you wouldn’t want your
boss, future boss or clients to see

5. According to Ilya Pozin of Forbes
Magazine, everyone should ask these 12
questions before posting on Facebook
 Should I target a specific audience with this message?
 Will anyone really care about this content besides me?
 Will I offend anyone with this content? If so, who? Does it matter?
 Is this appropriate for a social portal, or would it best be
communicated another way?
 How many times have I already posted something today? (3 or
less)
 Did I spell check?

6. Questions Continued
 Will I be okay with absolutely anyone seeing this?
 Is this post too vague? Will everyone understand what
I’m saying?
 Am I using this as an emotional dumping ground? If so,
why? Is a different outlet better for these purposes?
 Am I using too many abbreviations in this post and
starting to sound like a teenager?
 Is this reactive communication or is it well thought-out?
 Is this really something I want to share, or is it just me
venting?

7. Next is Linkedin

8. Linkedin
 Is a place for professionals
 Your profile picture matters
 Privacy Settings-make sure you change it so everyone
on your network isn’t notified when you update
 Do stay active
 Do reach out but don’t worry about numbers.

9. o You can't really use Twitter in a right or wrong way
because no two people use it for exactly the same reasons
o Be polite on Twitter, but no more or less so than you're
expected to be in the real world
o Remember that Twitter is a public forum

10. Always Remember
 First and foremost, think before posting anything.
 Say and post nothing you would not be happy to have
attached to your resume, employment application letter,
or security clearance investigation file.
 And as they say on Twitter … Always Tweet others the
way you want to be Tweeted!