The company with it's iconic duck mascot has fired comedian Gilbert Gottfried for making jokes about the disaster in Japan on his twitter account.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/03/14/georgia.aflac.duck/index.html?iref=NS1

seriously people? I'm tired of hearing about celebs getting in trouble by being stupid on Twitter and Facebook, but maybe it's an abject lesson.

Today in a radio program so many people called in to say they had lost jobs, or been denied jobs because of making statements in their Facebook accounts or Tweets.

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Date: 2011-03-15 08:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karadin.livejournal.com
I've never put very personal stuff public online, I like relative anonymity, it appalls me what some of my young friends put up, and the response tends to be 'big deal or everyone does it' *sigh*

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