Six career limiting moves you could make online

Career limiting moves are, basically, moves that could put you in a very awkward position at work. These Career Limiting Moves (CLM) could mean the end of your job, a dead-end in your job, a stagnation of growth, embarrassment with colleagues or senior management among many other potential problems.Online makes it all the more simple to incur a CLM. Before you'd need to go to a club, do something stupid and risky, have someone from work see you with their own eyes, have that person bring it up at work and then on top of all of that, have your boss actually take their word over yours.Today it's much simpler to look like a fool and limit your career.Here are ten potential CLMs that you might be making right now.1. Updating your statusFacebook should actually be given more than one point. Facebook videos, photos, friends, walls, tagging, status updates and much, much more can all affect your colleagues opinion of you. Going out, getting drunk, partying, bunking work and recording all of this on Facebook is silly.Updating your status telling the world that you are having coffee away from work when you told work that you were sick is a mistake. Don't make it.2. Secret office romancesSome companies don't necessarily condone office relationships. So don't go and put that sort of information on your Facebook page, blog or pictures on any other online profile that you have. Think about it, choose love, job or privacy. Simply put be discreet.3. Recording your life one shot at a timePhotos are amazing but keep in mind they can be proof. The next time you add photos to your Flickr account remember that you're not the only one who can see them, everyone else can. That is, unless you set the photo's status to private. I suggest you do that with photos that might appear to be questionable. You know your company. Are they liberal, conservative, party animals or free thinkers? If they are extreme-conservatives take down that photo of you dressed up like Marilyn Monroe.4. Speak your mind but be smartEveryone who reads this blog knows that I have a big mouth and firm opinions but I know that I can blog about them because my company is fairly liberal. Some might not be. So think through your blog posts. Don't simply blog the first thing that comes to mind. Think about the effects of your posts, I definitely consider most of the ramifications of every post that I write these days. I've learned my lesson, lawsuits and getting fired are not fun no matter what you might think.5. Bad mouthing peopleBeing opinionated and being arrogant and foolish are very different approaches that have different outcomes.Opinionated people tend to not to be frowned upon. They tend to be taken notice of and you could benefit from this greatly. If you are nervous at the office and have strong opinions on your blog about people, politicians and situations it might pay dividends for you at work. However if you are arrogant and aimlessly, recklessly target individuals on your blog or another platform prepare for a firefight.6. Bad SpellingI kan like to make for sure that spalling is okai somtimes.But let's be honest this blog isn't perfect when it comes to grammar and spelling. I am well aware of this and I've been lucky that my dearest readers often check up on me and point out the errs of my ways!You need to be very careful because some people are very picky about language. It's an integral part of many, many jobs. Remember, 'i' before 'e' except after 'c'...or something like that.photo credit: massdistraction

Facebook busts Oxford students

Oxford Proctors are using Facebook to discipline students. Wow. That is some serious news.I have blogged about online profiles before and the importance of keeping a squeaky-clean record online. This is proof.The students were quoted as being shocked and pissed off that their photographs had been viewed by their university. I am not shocked by this at all in fact. I think that students are ignorant, foolish and naive if they think that they can break the rules of their campus, post the photos online ANYWHERE and expect to remain unknown. Morons.It is not a difficult process to locate photos of people within certain networks, groups, social circles or any other classification.

"I don't know how this happened, especially as my privacy settings were such that only my friends and students in my networks could view my photos."It's quite unbelievable and I am very pissed off, [I] just hope that no-one else gets 'caught' in this way."

said Alex Hill, one of the students charged with misconduct.All one needs to do is start a Facebook profile, join the oxford network, find one or two friends in this network and search through their photographs. The tags are there, the links are there, the connections are undeniable.It is more appalling to me that these students honestly believed they would not be found. And concerning to me that the Proctors at a university like Oxford have nothing better to do with their time than search through tagged photos of their students. Tsk, Tsk.This however does speak to more than just students. With Facebook being open to the masses (any age, nation, gender, race, creed, colour etc etc) anyone can see anything from anyone. This means that if you are at work and gefoffeling with the wrong person from work and you get caught out, you could be in trouble. Remember, your bosses could be online, they could be watching and with Facebook around there are eyes everywhere.