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Who wants to get fired?

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Microblogging services like Twitter have witnessed a flood of users and short updates (tweets). Although this phenomenon brings new possibilities of communication, it also brings dangerous consequences. From time to time, people post tweets guided by strong emotions. By default, tweets are public and anyone, anywhere can instantly see your updates, creating high exposure and lack of awareness about privacy issues. In many cases, this may lead to consequences that can be harmful to one's personal and professional life. In this paper, we investigate the posting behavior of people who tweet that they hate their jobs and bosses and their responses to alerts about the potential damage that such a tweet may cause. We show that, in many cases, people are not aware about the dimension of their audience, and once alerted, they often regret what they have publicly said. Our analysis leads us to believe that many users could benefit from a 'give a second thought before posting' tool that may save their jobs.

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    WebSci '13: Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference
    May 2013
    481 pages
    ISBN:9781450318891
    DOI:10.1145/2464464
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    • (2015)Comparison-Based PrivacyRevised Selected Papers of the 10th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, and Security Assurance - Volume 948110.1007/978-3-319-29883-2_15(226-234)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2015
    • (2015)Analyzing and Predicting Privacy Settings in the Social WebUser Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization10.1007/978-3-319-20267-9_9(104-117)Online publication date: 11-Jun-2015
    • (2014)Minha casa ou sua casa!Proceedings of the 13th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.5555/2738055.2738151(453-456)Online publication date: 27-Oct-2014
    • (2014)Haters gonna hateProceedings of the 23rd International Conference on World Wide Web10.1145/2567948.2576953(557-558)Online publication date: 7-Apr-2014

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