In a recent statter911.com article,
Bradley Baugh, an Ohio firefighter was fired after posting something on Facebook
deemed “racially insensitive.” The article dubbed the post as “SMACSS
(Social Media Assisted Career Suicide Syndrome).”[i] All it took was just one post to end a person’s
career. This was not the first instance
and surely this will not be the last. Just Google “fired after post on Facebook.”
Paul writes to Timothy when
choosing a pastor for a church, “Moreover he must have a good report of them
which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil…” (1st
Timothy 3:7 KJV). This verse applies to
those who desire to be pastors, but it is applicable for others. People such as teachers, pastors, police
officers, and others in positions of trust, bare too much about themselves and
their family on Facebook. Their likes
and dislikes, affiliations, movie and TV preferences, etc. It seems that there
is nothing that others do not know about them. One impulsive tweet or post on Facebook can
end a person’s career.
“Be
sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion,
walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith,
knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in
the world.” (1Pe 5:8-9)
[i] https://www.statter911.com/2018/04/11/one-facebook-post-causes-ohio-firefighter-to-lose-jobs-with-two-departments/
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