There's a point where it crosses a line from protecting a brand

into policing your employees

or in the case of twitch, contractors.

Maybe the work thing was kind of a bad example of my part, because there are good cases and bad cases of that happening.

Like, if I got fired for saying, by name, my employer sucks and nobody should use the service, and talk about what a tool one of our customers are, and release information like that

That's damaging to my employer, they have every right to fire me

But if I simply repost a spicy meme

I shouldn't get called into the manager's office over that.

I guess, but if it's something like "I hate my work hours" or something, that is much more inocuous.

I think the main issue in this discussion is that people are too accustomed to social media being their new "friend/audience"

That they forget that posting on open social media isn't
"Talking to friends" as much as "Announcing to the world"

And as chat is open to interpretation, their followers see it more as a point of noteworthy discussion
Aka, a complaint isn't letting off steam, but a genuine complaint

Jay put that quite well.

It also comes down to what was said and how it's said.

100%.

Oh yeah, my main point was if we would ever reach the point where a lack of social media accounts would ever in and of itself be a red flag to employers, because then there would be nothing for them of you to monitor.

oh that will definately happen,

"bad" branded social media will give you negative rep

like if you're on Gab, a "notorious alt-right blabla" form of twitter

Like having no facebook or twitter, but having Gab account.

that will definately happen,

people are alraedy vilified for following "the wrong" person

My Gab account, for instance, if they actually looked into it would find that I'm pretty much just one of two Nintendo news outlets on there.
But would they even look? lol

depends on if you use your real life info on gab 😛

Which brings up another point: what if your social media accounts don't use your real name or identity?

well as long as they remain anonymous, they'll never know

Like, again, my Gab account being "JadenFrostwolf", not my real name and face.

well if they'd google your name, you wouldn't show up on gab, so you'd be safe

Hopefully that is all they care about.

until all the bad people do it, then the left will push for banning anonimity

Kind of like what's going on right now with the MoneyBadgers calling out Metikur for being anonymous. lol

i haven't picked up on that one yet

but yeah, if they demand the "trolls" get revealed, then you'll get a shitstorm

Metikur and Randomercam got into a bit of a spat in the comment's section of one of Metikur's videos -- the one where he's talking about a pedophile that's also autistic?

Destiny? 😛

Randomercam apparently had issue with Metikur calling him autistic, even though he actually was, or something?

I only have Metikur's perspective of this, since Randomercam I don't think has talked about it.

*Allegedly*, Randomercam made continual and consistent passive-aggressive twitter comments about Metikur, before finally Metikur called him out on it, asking him to come to a livestream to talk about it in the internet equivalent of 'face-to-face.'

And Randomercam wouldn't do it.

The Honeybadgers jumped in and eventually one of them came into an IBS stream to confront Metikur.

You can imagine how well that went.

I only know Metikour to be a very sharp wildcard

Ever since then the 'MoneyBadgers' have been at war with Metikur, to the point where they've even 'inspired' him to do a video series on the MRM.

yay, internet drama

That nickname came about during the IBS stream where the person that came to 'defend' Randomercam didn't really do it that well, and seemed much more interested in informing everyone about their court cases and their patreons and fundraisers? She didn't actually really do much in the stream.