Social media is the latest thing that most of us are hooked onto. The networks created on social media start out with personal contacts and then spread over to professional and extended friend circles. The catch is that everybody in the network is able to see what you post. And, many a time, employees in IT fail to distinguish between confidential information that has restricted control within company networks and this information can get propagated into personal and friends' circles, thereby causing a potential threat to the company.

Not only this, when social media is mixed between professional and personal contacts, professional contacts are able to see your personal antics, which can potentially reflect badly on the organization you work with.

What happens in the office stays in the office. Do not write about it elsewhere, especially on channels that are over the Internet. You must never share about what is happening in your office to the outside world. For example...