Cole's Twitter outburst: A warning for all of us

At the beginning of the month, Chelsea and England's left back Ashley Cole had a Twitter outburst, he called the England Football Federation a bunch of "tweets" because they questioned his evidence at the John Terry racism trial.

What did Cole get? he got fined £90,000 and was reduced to be an unused substitute at the England vs San Marino game, a game which you have to admit was not the most important of his career. Cole should consider himself lucky  and also has to thank the fact that he is one of the best left back in the world for such a generous punishment.

In fact, in the real world ( not the football one), most of the workers would be fired if they insulted their bosses on Twitter. You would think who would insult his boss on the internet? and the hard truth is that there is more people than you think that use social networks to complain.

Today, with the technology we have it is very easy to go on social networks, you can access them on your phone whenever you want and wherever you want, so it is very easy for people to throw away what they think . The advantage of those networks is that complaints or insults are really easy to do because you do not have to make them face to face with the person you are targeting. It also enables people who do not have what it takes to express what they think of something or somebody.

It is just so easy to express your dissatisfaction with a tweet or a status update.

 With social networks nowadays your first feeling is that you are free to say whatever you want. Do you really think you are that free? The answer is no, actually social network kills your privacy and even can endanger your life. Anybody can see what you post and even if you have a screen name they can find you.

For example, if you are a student, universities you have applied for will search you on Facebook, and if something is wrong on your profile then it will limit your chances of going into those universities. 

Companies also hire people to check what there employee post on a daily basis and what is said about you, if something is inappropriate or wrong then you can be severely punished and lose your job.

So what I want to explain to you is that you have to learn to monitor your skills with Social Media because it is not a game it is very dangerous and by the way Mr Cole this also applies to you.