Watch what you tweet – Paris Brown

Watch what you tweet – Paris Brown

Recently ‘’ Britain's first youth crime commissioner ‘’ quit her job role due to her inappropriate tweets. Paris Brown, a 17 year old Youth Commissioner from Kent was forced to quit her job when inacceptable tweets were discovered on her Twitter including racial, homophobic, drug abuse, violent and sexual feed.

A Youth Commissioner Job role is to be the person who is the messenger between the youth and the police and also the crime commissioner, and make sure the youth get their message across and is understood.  As said ‘With great power comes great responsibility’ Paris Brown is a perfect example of this, in today’s date where social networks are so popular and used by millions one should be very careful of what they tweet.

Although Brown had tweeted these comments before she was appointed for Youth Commissioner, they will now signify her for the rest of her life. The Younger generation do not realise the power of social media, what they might think is simply sharing their thoughts on social networks might later be used against them in future and in the adult world. For example if you want to start your own business and you are looking for investors, or simply just applying for a job they will investigate what kind of an individual you are via social networks to get an idea of the individual’s life style. Employers will look at potential employees social sites to see what kind of a person they are and what kind of activities they are processing. For example if your twitter feed is presenting inappropriate pictures of, this reflects on your work life. Whereas if your feed if occupied with work related substance the employer is more likely to hire you because they will realise how passionate and involved you are in your work. What a person comments can affect an individual’s life and identity.

Ann Barnes , Crime Commisoner said ‘’ I was not recruiting an angel... I was recruiting a young person, warts and all'