What is attitude?

Well, correct me if I am wrong but I believe that attitude is the way somebody treats their life and that of the people around them. This may seem to be something that only refers to hormonal teenagers. This is not true, I am going to show you why.

As I have shown you before, social networking is an incredible force at the moment where a lot of details are available. This means that everybody that you follow or are friends with, depending on what network you use, can see how you act. Normally this would be fine, everyone has mood swings at some point. But when people that may be your clients or that you have to potential to be in business with then just one step out of line and, in severe cases, your life could be damaged immensely.

I have been looking for real examples to show you. Firstly, this is not quite what I mean but it shows how social networking effects jobs, take a look at this BBC headline: Facebook’ lost policeman top job. Here is another one: Ottawa employees fired because of Facebook. Another article from the same site really shows the attitude of some facebook users: Experiment proves 2 out of 5 Facebook users will lose the job. Need I go on? Next time you are networking, just think about what it might do to your career. This is especially true if you purposely network with those that you work with, which is very common with the online industries.

Other than the attitude that people have, the way they use language is also very important. On MSN and through email to our friends we all use internet slang such as “lol” or “rofl” but some people also use this when contacting their business contacts. Even I have been known to do this. So, is it something that we should not do? Or does it not matter? 

If you have any stories about this, please share with us! This was a short post because I really want you to have a big input into the discussion.

Thank you,

Shane