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How to Use Technology to Destroy Your Career

I was just reading about how a woman dealt with an offensive joke-telling guy at a developer's conference by outing him on Twitter. He got fired. So did she. Both tried to defend their actions on the blogosphere, to no avail.That's just another in a long line of increasingly easy ways far too many of you will someday use some of that cool technology you've got at your fingertips to destroy your reputation, lose your job, or blow your career.You think I'm kidding? I'm not. Not even a little. I can rattle off a long list of examples, all of which really happened to people I know and other high-profile executives. Here are just a few cautionary tales.Too much information . I don't know how many times Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has gotten himself into hot water by over-communicating. The last time was when he blabbed material company information on his personal Facebook page. That triggered an SEC investigation into whether the verbose chief executive violated the Fair Disclosure Regulation...

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