Monday, June 3, 2013

SOCIAL MEDIA INSIGHTS: One In Ten Young People Have Been Rejected For Jobs Because Of Their Social Media History

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Monday, June 3, 2013

One In Ten Young People Have Been Rejected For Jobs Because Of Their Social Media History

1 In 10 Young Americans Have Been Rejected For A Job Because Of Social Media Use (ondevice Research)
New research shows that young people ages 16-24 are losing potential job offers because of comments or pictures on their online and social media profiles. Despite this, two-thirds of the 6,000 respondents in the survey said they are not concerned that their use of social media now may harm their future career prospects and are not deterred from using it. Read >

The Death Of The Social Media Editor (BuzzFeed)
Social media has become so central to what most media outlets do now that having a specific person dedicated to doing it seems like an anachronism, says Rob Fishman (a former social media editor at the Huffington Post). Last week, Anthony De Rosa announced that he was leaving his social media editor role at Reuters to join mobile news startup Circa as editor-in-chief. In the same way that web editors evolved into new media journalists, we might see a similar transition for social media editors. Read >

HootSuite Launches Social Media Security Services For Corporate Accounts (HootSuite)
In response to the flurry of recent social media account hackings, HootSuite (a popular social media management tool) has launched a security service that offers security alerts, crisis training and simulation, and a social asset audit tool. Read >

Twitter Power-Users Can Now Create Up To 1,000 Lists (Mashable)
Twitter has increased the number of lists users can create to 1,000 (up from 20), and each list can include to 5,000 accounts (up from 500). Read >

Facebook Is Losing Users In a Major Age Group (Business Insider)
Facebook was the only major social network to lose users ages 12 to 64 between 2011 and 2012. Of course, it's still the largest social network, but the fact that the site is losing users in a major age group raises the question: Has Facebook's popularity peaked? Read >