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 in-
stantly 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 investi-
gate 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 though before posting’ tool that may save
their jobs.
%0 Journal Article
%1 noauthororeditor2013wants
%A Kawase, Ricardo
%A Nunes, Bernardo Pereira
%A Herder, Eelco
%A Nejdl, Wolfgang
%A Casanova, Marco Antonio
%D 2013
%J CHI
%K awareness privacy twitter
%T Who Wants To Get Fired?
%U http://www.l3s.de/~herder/research/papers/2013/whowantstogetfired.pdf
%X 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 in-
stantly 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 investi-
gate 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 though before posting’ tool that may save
their jobs.
@article{noauthororeditor2013wants,
abstract = {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 in-
stantly 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 investi-
gate 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 though before posting’ tool that may save
their jobs.
},
added-at = {2013-04-03T01:46:01.000+0200},
author = {Kawase, Ricardo and Nunes, Bernardo Pereira and Herder, Eelco and Nejdl, Wolfgang and Casanova, Marco Antonio},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/219d878a26cec9880f0154a137358744c/asmelash},
interhash = {535db8d6076a79818192088c7a190db5},
intrahash = {19d878a26cec9880f0154a137358744c},
journal = {CHI},
keywords = {awareness privacy twitter},
month = {April 27–May 2},
timestamp = {2013-04-03T01:46:01.000+0200},
title = {Who Wants To Get Fired?},
url = {http://www.l3s.de/~herder/research/papers/2013/whowantstogetfired.pdf},
year = 2013
}