Consistency matters

You can’t be a jerk on the Internet and then expect people to like you in real life.

Social media, despite its setbacks, is vital in the modern professional world. Even celebrities interact with fans they’d never come into contact with face-to-face. Twitter makes it possible to find people with similar interests and lingo. Having this tool at your fingertips is empowering because it can get you noticed by future employees, but it’s also dangerous.

For some, tendencies to over-criticize in a non-constructive way may outshine the talent they’ve worked so hard to develop. If your feed is full of incompetent or unprofessional posts, it could be a major turn off.

So for your sake and mine, please resist the urge to excessively nitpick, backbite and insult.

Either way, you’ll have to live with the consequences.

— Mariah Noble is the editor-in-chief of The Utah Statesman and takes responsibility for every error and fact published in the paper throughout the year. She can be contacted at m.noble@aggiemail.usu.edu.