WEBVTT - Social Media Faux Pas 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:08.920 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:18.040 tech Stuff from how stuff works dot coming. Hello again, everyone, 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.520 and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Palette, 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:22.599 and I'm an editor at how stuff works dot Com. 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.720 Sitting across from me as usual as senior writer Jonathan Strickland. 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.880 I'm not shouting, all right, I am. I'm shouting. I'm shouting. 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:35.400 I'm shouting. You know, I'll have to ask you where 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:36.800 you picked that one up because I don't know that one. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:38.440 You don't know that one? Now, I don't know. Okay, 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:42.280 that was That was a classic film from the eighties. Actually, 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.159 I wonder if it's got to be one you've seen. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:46.800 If you have not seen this movie, you will have 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.400 to watch it. Okay, but we'll talk about it afterwards. Okay, 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.640 let's talk about what we're going to actually address today. Okay, 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.280 so today we're going to talk about some some mistakes 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:01.920 people have made utilizing social media in its various forms 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:06.600 and social networking. I see, so I thought I thought 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.880 before we actually get into any cases, we can kind 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.280 of talk a little bit about why this has become 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:16.760 a problem sort of from an armchair psychology way right, 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.399 good because I only I went to the school of 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:23.000 armchair psychology. Yeah, yeah, I I have a degree in 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.160 lazy boy psychiatry actually, so I can. I never mind anyway. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:31.960 So what my theory about why social media and social 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.920 networking has given rise to a lot of people making 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.680 goofy mistakes is that it allows you to voice your 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:45.800 thoughts to essentially a global audience almost immediately allows you nay, 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:50.920 I say, encourages you to do this. It tasks me, 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:55.240 um it, Oh there's something going on I should write 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.480 about that. Now I have had a thought, let me 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.160 express it to everyone I know and to people I 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:04.080 don't know as well. Yeah, especially with things like like 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:10.000 cell phones and smartphones tying into this technology, it's really 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:16.680 given us the opportunity to express a thought almost instantaneously. Yes, 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.640 and in some cases, depending on what it is that 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:22.760 you're doing, I would say that it, uh, you're you're 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.679 trying to scoop everyone else. If you see something happening 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.639 that that could be uh, you know, m historical event 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:34.080 or just something compelling where you'd like to, you know, 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:37.520 get the jump on everyone else. Tweeting it's like, hey, 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.880 there goes somebody famous down the sidewalk. I should tweet that, right, 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:44.240 And also it gives you this feeling that, uh, you know, 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:47.720 it's not that far removed from text messaging, right, but 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:49.760 when you're seeing a text message, you're sending it to 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.920 a specific person, it's not going out to the public 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.480 at large, and you get this idea. It's kind of 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.960 like when you're chatting with friends. You know, you don't 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:00.280 expect the things you say to friends, as long as 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.280 it's not directly about them or their significant others. You 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.160 don't expect that stuff to come back and kick you 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.800 in the butt. True, right, like you can get with 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.600 your friends and complain about your job. That's that's true. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.400 And it's funny because you figure, well, I don't know 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.960 you do, but some people might think, you know, hey, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.560 I've only got twenty three followers. Only those twenty three 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.520 people are going to read my Twitter account. But unless 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.079 you've locked it down in your privacy settings, that's not 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.680 the case necessarily. And you know, the Library of Congress 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.720 is archiving these things, so there's a public records, a 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.280 public record of what you're doing, at least on Twitter. 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.960 But but This is the case for various venues, not 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.480 just Twitter, but we're also going to talk about Facebook 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.920 and probably YouTube, and there's even a Craigslist story in here. Really, yeah, 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:55.120 I don't know that when you're talking about yes you do, Oh, 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.120 yes I do, Yes you do, it's funny. Okay. So 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.000 we've got some story is to share about some fairly 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:06.880 famous or at least infamous misuses of social networking. And 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.840 really the reason why we're doing this it's kind of 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.839 a cautionary tale, right. It's letting people know you need 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.720 to be careful with what you say on the Internet 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.880 because it can have real life consequences further down the road, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.360 even if you were just being silly or joking. And 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.240 I can say from personal experience, I mean I've been 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.520 guilty of sending something on Twitter or posting posting something 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:35.400 on Facebook that I intended to be expressed one way, 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.680 but due to either of my failing because I worded 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:44.000 it incorrectly or because of the the way people inferred 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.960 what I meant, it kind of um didn't go the 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.039 way I hadn't anticipated. It also does not help that 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.480 if you get angry, you know, you should make sure 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.719 that you're as far away from a computer or smartphone 0:04:55.760 --> 0:05:00.360 as humanly possible, because you will your your inner sir, 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.080 your inner editor tends to take little breaks whenever you 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:07.120 get ticked off, and the next thing you know, you're 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:13.520 sending out ah an obscenity laden tweet that particularly points 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.200 the finger at specific individuals in your life, and then 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:22.159 you will have a reckoning. So, um, should we tell 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.800 everyone which tweet it was that made us think this 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.840 would be a good time to do this episode? Go 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:33.440 for it? So fashion designer Kenneth Cole. And and now 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.200 we don't really need to say anything else because this 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.359 is pretty close in proximity to when we're recording it, 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:43.800 and I'll probably release fairly close to that too. You. Um, 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:49.120 Kenneth Cole has a history of trying to demonstrate that 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.240 he's with it. He knows what's going on in the world. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.479 He pays attention to world events. Yeah, and if you 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.120 don't know who Kenneth Cole is, he's a fashion designer. 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.400 Didn't I say a fashion designer? You probably did and 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:03.160 I just zoned out. Um, I haven't had my coffee yet, 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.520 so if I if I missed it anyway, that's good 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.960 to point out Uh, well, he's uh. He apparently is 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.120 uh one of the people at his company that has 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.280 access to his company's Twitter account, or at least he 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.600 used to Yeah, well, or or somebody tweeted and and 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.080 attributed it to him because they put their um uh, 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:30.200 they put their initials casey by by this, so we 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.080 assume that it is in fact kennethic goal and he 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.960 did in fact apologize for it later. But um as 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.520 the uh, I guess is it safe to call it 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.720 a revolution in Egypt? A lot of Egyptian people call 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.799 it a revolution, so I guess if they're the authorities 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:51.159 on this um they a few days after the protests 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:56.680 had begun in Egypt, Mr Cole apparently quoted tweeted and 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.560 I quote millions are in uproar in Cairo in hashtag 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.080 Cairo rememor is they heard our new spring collection is 0:07:04.120 --> 0:07:08.279 now available online at and put the r L right now. 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.200 Using the hashtag Cairo means that if you were to 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.640 use Twitter search to find out the latest information of 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.720 what was going on in Cairo and use that hashtag, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.520 this would be one of the messages that would pull up, 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.920 depending on you know, how long after you were looking 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.680 it up because there was a lot of stuff happening, right, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.120 So I mean clearly that that list would be filling 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.480 up quickly. But it means that this, this promotional tweet 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.760 would appear in the middle of all these messages that 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.880 were about social change, and a lot of people thought 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.120 that this was in bad taste, and Chris You pointed 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.440 out that it was also a case of just incredibly 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.240 poor timing, because not only was it in poor taste, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:52.360 just to start with um, when Kenneth Cole posted this message, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:56.520 it was when the protests were still relatively peaceful, right, 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:01.640 And so it happened to be hosted the same day 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.480 that some of the protests began to turn violent, that 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.880 there was violence enacted upon the protesters, and so then 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:13.880 it went from poor taste to astonishingly poor taste. And 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.840 here's the thing about the internet. The Internet is kind 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.840 of like a big brother, right. Big brothers tend to, 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.760 you know, bully their their younger siblings around a little 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.680 bit every now and then. But if someone else picks 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:31.320 on that younger sibling, big brother gets really mad and 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.559 then may lash out in a way that is not 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:39.200 necessarily equivalent to whatever the slight was so in other words, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.600 if you were to insult my little sister and I 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.079 have one, I might punch you in the mush and uh. 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.840 And so the Internet punched Kenneth Cole in the mush 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:54.920 so hard. There were tons of of parody and satirical 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:58.240 tweets that came out, supposedly attributed to Kenneth Cole that 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:03.160 were about other major events being belittled, essentially as part 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:08.439 of a marketing scheme. Um. And as Chris said, Kenneth 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:13.320 Cole himself actually apologized on Facebook. I might add, and 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.160 I have the quote for that if you would like 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.160 me to read it. I apologize to everyone who was 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.520 offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.319 I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.400 and in hindsight, my attempt at humor regarding a nation 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:33.440 liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.720 So you have to admit he did not deflect this 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:41.480 in any way. He accepted responsibility, which that's an admirable thing, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.440 and we should all remember that there are times when 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.560 some of us will make a joke about a particularly 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:52.640 sensitive topic without fully considering the implications of that joke. 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.480 I've done it in the past, but pretty much everyone has, right, 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.760 It's it's one thing to to do this, however, when 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.640 you're around a couple of your friends by seeing a 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.400 news event on TV and making that joke, versus broadcasting 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:11.720 it on Twitter to the world, including a link a 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.160 much bigger forum too, you know, because then only is 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.439 it a joke, it's a marketing ploy, right, So yeah, 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.600 it was definitely a bad choice. He apologized for it. Um, 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.360 I'd say that most of the fallout has pretty much 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.640 died down about around the time we're recording this. It's 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.760 been it's been a more than a week since, a 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:32.760 couple of weeks since uh that happened. But um, but yeah, 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:36.040 he was. He was raked over the virtual coals for 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:40.439 quite some time for that, and that's that was really 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.319 what kind of precipitated this discussion. Now, not not everything 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.520 we're going to talk about here is necessarily something that 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.760 gets someone fired or gets them in trouble with their friends. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.280 In some cases, it's just something that's bizarre and awkward, 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.439 And I wanted to do one of those just to 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.680 kind of give you the idea of what can happen 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:05.440 when taken to the extreme. Before I, before I really 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.760 get into this, this is about David Prager, who is 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.880 an executive with Revision three. Uh. Now, I have never 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.160 spoken with David. I have not met David, but I 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.120 know people who do know David, and they all say 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.679 that he's a great guy and is just a you know, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.560 a cool cat. That's the deal with David. Um. Now, 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.760 David did get a little bit of a heat put 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:31.319 on him. A lot of jokes were made at his 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.400 expense for something that he did on Twitter a couple 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:38.440 of years ago. Um. He was the victim of a 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:43.360 home invasion, more or less, and rather than calling the police, 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:48.280 he tweeted about it at length. I would like to 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.880 read to you a selection of the tweets he wrote, 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:56.160 keeping in mind, I cut out a lot of them, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:58.160 so there when you sit there and think, wow, this 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.560 guy tweeted a lot. That's about maybe sixty percent of 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:05.040 what he actually said. So here's how it starts. Okay, 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.680 maybe I should lock my door. I swear a random 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.160 dude just walked into my bathroom. And I can't believe 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:14.240 I haven't freaked out next, and I can't believe I'm 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:17.520 tweeting about it while he's still here. I wonder if 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:22.880 he's sleepwalking or if maybe I should freak out. Then okay, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.080 he's still in the bathroom. And now I'm thinking a 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:29.200 combo of hobo and drunk and sleepwalking dude. He seems 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:34.640 late twenties. What next? Next? Should I call the cops 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.600 like you guys have recommended, find a blunt object before 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.280 opening the door. My gut tells me he's harmless. Next, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:46.400 but I could be wrong about the harmless assumption. Next, Okay, 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.760 about to make a move, putting shoes on first, Thank 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:54.800 god he tweeted that. Next, Okay, have weapon if I 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.520 need it, but don't plan on any confrontation with it. 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:01.720 About to go in Next, Okay, still haven't done anything. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.760 He is still in there, Gonna set up a U 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.760 stream now I think stand by. So then he starts 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:12.120 to live stream the home invasion with a webcam. If 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.360 you haven't been watching my youth stream, the dude passed 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.360 out in my bathroom and I just dragged him out. Next, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.440 I think the drama is over. In truder is out 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:23.400 door is locked. I think I finally need some sleep, 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.000 and that that's the conclusion. Keep in mind. Like I said, 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.079 I cut out about the tweets he sent during that 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:34.160 that whole thing, Now, David David got a little bit 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:37.640 of joking at his expense for rather than reacting to 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.640 a possible home invasion in a way that most of 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.679 us would, which is that we'd call the cops and 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.160 perhaps lock our own bedroom door to make sure that, 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.400 you know, we would remain safe, he decided to broadcast 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:55.040 it to the world. Uh, that's an unusual faux paw. Uh. 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.120 And like I said, from everything I've heard, he's actually 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:02.480 a pretty cool guy. So thankfully it was a peaceful resolution, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:08.199 I guess. And uh, maybe he locks his door now perhaps, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.000 how how anyone in this world doesn't lock their door? 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.199 Of course I live in Atlanta. I can't even imagine, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.800 not like like when I watch a show like Friends 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.760 where people just walk in and out of their their apartments. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.080 I think, what world is that? I can't imagine. I 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:26.080 would not be able to even sit down if I 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.520 knew my door was unlocked. Um, but we've got some 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.680 other ones. Here's here's um, here's a good way to 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:39.640 really mess up after a great job interview. Oh Cisco Fatty, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.520 Oh yeah, you got it exactly right. Connor Riley, also 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:48.560 known as the Connor on Twitter wrote, Cisco just offered 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:51.080 me a job. Now I have to weigh the utility 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.520 of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.480 Jose and hating the work. All right, Guys, if you 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.920 interview for a job, don't slam the work immediately after 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.640 the job interview. Don't sit there and say you're you're 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.800 debating on whether or not you're going to accept the position, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.640 because especially if it happens to be a computer or 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.760 or i T type company, because there's a chance they're 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.920 gonna notice. Yes, like the guy from Cisco who wrote, 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.440 who was the hiring manager, I'm sure they would love 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.080 to know that you will hate the work. We hear 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.880 at Cisco are well versed in the web. Yeah, so 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:33.320 um burn and uh And this this particular tweet also 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.080 gave rise to lots of parodies and spoofs. People were 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.960 joking about Cisco fatty because he was talking about the 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:42.680 fatty paycheck. Uh. Yeah, you don't want that kind of reputation. 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.400 And keep in mind, like again, he was probably thinking 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:47.280 that he was just posting that to his friends, but 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:51.080 because he didn't have a protected Twitter account, everyone got 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:54.160 to see it. Um. And then there are other ways 0:15:54.200 --> 0:16:00.000 of having social social media faue pas as well, like Skittles, Skittles, yeah, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:05.160 candy exactly, because not all of these are necessarily people 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.280 saying stupid things online and getting in trouble. In some cases, 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:13.920 it's a company allowing people to say stupid things. Yeah. 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:18.360 What Skittles did was Skittles created and a little applet 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.720 on their web page that would automatically post Twitter messages 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:27.200 that had the hashtag Skittles in them, And once people 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.280 figured that out, they began to have a little bit 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.080 of fun uh using these Skittles hashtag. Here's one that 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:37.160 was posted by Baritunde Thurston, who is a comedian. This 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:41.120 is one of the few pretty much safer work ones, 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:45.720 although again tasteless humor. Here we go hashtag Skittles got 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.360 stuck in my mouth while I was driving, forced me 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:52.360 to slam into orphanage, killing hundreds. I'll never eat them again. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.800 So in that case, the faux pas is a company 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.000 thinking that people will be reasonable and not take advance 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.560 enag of a of a system to in order to 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:07.919 make tasteless jokes. Uh. Lesson learned one of the major 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:12.359 auto manufacturers here in the United States posted um UM 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.919 an opportunity to make your own commercial on their website 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:22.000 about suv s or utility vehicles, which are uh, very 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.960 useful vehicles, but they also consume a lot of gas 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:32.480 petroleum petrol um And so rather than making viral video 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:37.399 videos that would extol the virtues of driving SUVs and 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.360 o MG, aren't these fun, people started talking about how 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.600 much gas they were using and how they were destroying 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.920 the planet. And I'm going to try to find the company. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.000 If not, then you can write, but don't pause the 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.399 podcast now if when Jonathan's talking, I can't find it. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.800 But that reminded me of that because I had forgotten 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.440 about the Skittles thing UM completely because it's been that's 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.120 been a couple of years ago, hasn't it now now 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.560 that we're recording in UM. But they are all sorts 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:12.000 of other things. Politicians have been terrible about this. They um. 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:16.440 Of course, they've been caught tweeting and emailing and doing 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.320 all kinds of things in session when they're supposed to 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.440 actually be paying attention to what's going on during the 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:26.840 State of the Union address. Yes, UM but I was 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:32.199 thinking of the United States representative from Michigan, Pete Hoekstra, 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:37.920 who who was on a UH state trip to Iraq 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:42.040 and Afghanistan, except the military would have preferred that he 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.960 didn't tell people where he was, and he was tweeting 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.439 about his whereabouts and saying that he had just landed 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.920 in Iraq, and the Pentagon was really upset with him, 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.640 for it makes protecting a public servant much more difficult 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:00.159 when the public servant is broadcasting his position exactly. And 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.800 as we know, people in you know, everywhere in the 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:07.080 world at least did had access to these tools are 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.760 using them. So it is very likely that somebody who 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.679 may have wanted to remove him from the planet was 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.040 reading that right as he was tweeting it. Here's another 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:23.840 politico who who used social networking poorly, Virginia State Senator 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:30.720 Jeff Frederick, member of the Republican Party. He tweeted about 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:36.280 a Democrat named Ralph Northam who was considering uh leaving 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.879 the Democratic Party. I remember this. Here's the Twitter message. 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.159 Big news coming out of Senate. Apparently one dem is 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.760 either switching or leaving the DEM Caucus. Negotiations for power 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:51.879 sharing underway now if he had done this after the switch, 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.919 it wouldn't have been such a big deal. But he 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.960 did it before, which gave the Democrats, who were paying 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.800 attention to the internet, the opportunity to find out who 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.200 was the person the person who was going to quote 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.399 unquote leave the Democratic Party and put a lot of 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:13.159 political pressure on that guy, Ralph Northam to stay a Democrat. 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.600 And that is exactly what happened, which means that Jeff 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:21.119 Frederick managed to stick it to his own party. You know, 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:25.640 they might have gained another uh you know, an ally, 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:30.439 but because he got a little thumb happy on Twitter, 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.719 that ended up not happening. Yeah. Actually, that's funny because 0:20:34.920 --> 0:20:37.760 according to the information I saw now that the Senate 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:43.320 um in Virginia is has an even number of members, 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:47.040 and so the lieutenant governor, uh, in the case of 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.520 a tie vote in the Senate, is the tiebreaker. Now, 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:55.080 the lieutenant governor was a Republican, and if if the 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:57.840 switch had been made, it would have been an even 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:00.560 split down the middle, which means that if there was 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.280 a vote down party lines half Democrat half Republican, the 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:08.480 lieutenant governor, a Republican, would have been able to Basically 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.000 they would have been able to do anything they needed 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.760 to do down party lines, because you know that that 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:19.920 one UH senator had switched, but leaving the Democrats at 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:24.560 fifty one forty nine, um prevented that from happening. So 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:28.040 that was probably not such a good move. Actually, I'm 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:30.920 not sure that it's there a hundred senators in Virginia, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:37.160 so anyway it was, or however many of there are. UM. 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:41.440 So I was gonna say, if you are not supposed 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:45.800 to tweet during jury duty, you should you should not 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:49.760 tweet during jury duty or or use Facebook, or use Facebook. 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:53.359 I'm specifically thinking about you to date show anchorman or 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:58.840 weatherman alt Roker. Well, I like you, aut Roker. However, 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.679 you shouldn't tweet during jury duty. I don't even know 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.639 this story. Can you tell me a little more? Not 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:09.840 a lot? But he he got busted for tweeting because well, 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:11.880 the thing is, I mean, if you're in jury duty, 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.399 you're not supposed to be discussing the details of the case. 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:19.040 It's supposed to be quiet. Um. Then again, you don't 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:23.600 often have media personalities and your jury pool at that 0:22:23.720 --> 0:22:25.800 at that level, because if you don't live in the 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:30.080 United States, Mr Roker is a well known and pretty 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.440 well liked, uh celebrity on one of the morning news 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:36.680 shows Networks New Shows, and uh, yeah, I mean a 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:38.399 lot of lots and lots of people know who he is. 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:41.920 He's a he's a pretty personable guy and easy to 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:44.920 follow on Twitter, and yeah, that that draws a lot 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:47.200 of attention. You would go, hey, how Roker's in jury 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:51.280 duty with me and he's tweeting about it. There was 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:55.480 a juror in the United Kingdom who uh apparently was 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:59.399 really confused over how she should side in the case, 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:02.720 and so she used her Facebook profile to ask her 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:06.639 friends what she should do and essentially made a poll 0:23:06.680 --> 0:23:11.640 over whether she should give a guilty or not guilty verdict. 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.760 Needless to say, the judge was not amused and she 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:18.679 was removed from the jury pool. Uh so, yeah, that 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:22.160 was also not a very wise decision. I'm getting back 0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:25.080 to politicians for a second. We mentioned Craig's list briefly. 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:28.679 I gotta I gotta tell this story though. Okay, so 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:32.320 here's the other thing about if if you are uh 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:34.560 if if you have decided that you are going to 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:39.400 have an affair, first of all, shame upon you. But secondly, Uh, 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:42.080 you might want to make sure you're not leaving a 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:45.560 easily followable trail, or that you're talking to people who 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:50.880 might recognize who you are. That unfortunately happened with Christopher Lee, 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:55.440 who was a congressman who responded to a personal ad 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:59.600 on Craigslist of a woman who was looking for someone, 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.240 and he claimed at that he was a thirty nine 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:06.400 year old divorced lobbyist. He is actually a forty six 0:24:06.480 --> 0:24:11.040 year old former congressman who was married and has kids. Um, 0:24:11.200 --> 0:24:16.199 And he posted he sent the lady a picture of himself, uh, 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.560 making a muscle man pose, wearing no shirt at all, 0:24:20.600 --> 0:24:23.919 and that has now become sort of his image on 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:29.520 the web, which I think probably has heard his political future, 0:24:29.720 --> 0:24:32.520 at least in the short term. Although this is America, 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:38.000 you never know true true enough. Um, yeah, I mean 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:41.600 that the you know, the United States has a a 0:24:41.600 --> 0:24:45.439 place where many entrepreneurs, you know, set out to strike 0:24:45.440 --> 0:24:49.080