In the United States, around 79% of adults use a social networking site. As a result, many employees post on these networking sites about their employer, their employment status, and workplace issues. According to 2018 survey , 38% of employers have fired employees over online content the employee posted. In addition, 70% of companies say they look up job candidates on social media and 57% of that 70% said something on on the candidate’s social media resulted in their rejected application. In some instances, employees have been terminated due to their comments and posts on social media websites.