This could have been a really dark joke……
Oh man. That was pretty lame. Even for me.
That was so lame, that I am not even going to bother adding a blog post to this comic.
You just look at it and laugh if you want to.
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Socionesia
You will know someone that suffers from this ailment.
It may be someone close to you- a family member or a good friend.
It may be a work colleague that you really only speak to when you need to borrow a stapler.
Maybe it is your neighbour or their kids.
Or maybe it is YOU.
If you suffer from SOCIONESIA, do not be ashamed. This disease is spreading in our community right now, and there is nothing we can do about it. Just embrace it.
The WHO Report 1996 stated that in the past 20 years since it’s publication, at least 30 new diseases had emerged, for many of which there is no treatment, cure or vaccine, or the possibility of effective prevention or control.
At this time, the internet was still gaining popularity, so they would not have been able to factor in all of the “diseases” that a life lived online could bring.
A study posted last year points to a possible connection between Internet use and psychosis.
The affliction known as “internet addiction disorder” is fairly well known these days, and presents itself in a variety of ways.
And more disorders would most likely be discovered every week, I am guessing.
So, rather than getting all stressed out about this, I say we just go with it and see what happens.
Realise that the internet can seriously mess us up (something we should ALL be aware of by now) and that we need to support people we meet, who have a modern online disease.
Don’t get angry at the girl that cannot stop texting friends for even 5 minutes.
Never laugh at the man that thinks the images on women on dating sites are really what they look like.
Try not to shun friends that want to stay in on weekends to play MMORPGs.
Forgive the few that still use MySpace.
We are all just trying to swim upstream, through a download of electronic information.
The Luigi link
Luigi is so lonely.
He is never the winner.
Always being over-shadowed by his brother Mario.
Never getting the girl.
Never winning a kingdom.
And Link was just…. there and they had SOOO much in common.
They both like green.
They both, um, well…. Look, probably lots of things I can’t think of, OK?
And in the right light, through the bottom of a beer bottle, Link does look kinda like a girl.
This comic was partly inspired by this very cool strip called “It Sucks to be Weegie” by Interrobang Studios. #fistbump to the team over there. They are doing awesome work.
Obey the rules
Sometimes companies can have social media policies that do far more harm than good.
The “social media policy” is something that many of us can now find in our company handbooks or OH&S policies.
Apparently, only 29% of companies have a formal policy on employee social media usage in place, but of those that do, many seem to have gone a little overboard and made them overly strict.
While it is important for companies to set out guidelines on how employees can use online media while during work hours (an sometimes even dictating how they use it out-of-hours) these policies need to be flexible enough not to create issues every time an employee posts something.
Strict rules over social media use in the workplace, can lead to lawsuits and plenty of bad press – precisely the kind of thing these policies are trying to prevent.
There are many reports of people being fired due to posts on twitter and facebook. There is even a website documenting cases of people being “facebook fired“.
Some stories are funny due to the sheer ignorance shown by the poster like this one.
Others can be far more serious – such as an AP reporter being reprimanded for a facebook post, teachers being let go or being fired for letting off steam about work in your own time.
It is obvious that many businesses are unsure how or what to do regarding policing their employees & social media. But being dictatorially strict about it is definitely not the answer.
If you are looking to write a policy for how your staff use social media soon, why not browse through this library of Social Media policies from other companies, and choose the best course of action for your organisation?