Can you believe “wrong-piping” wasn’t in Urban Dictionary?
Posted: December 16th, 2011 | Author: Erica | Filed under: Social Media Platforms | Tags: Heather Dooce Armstrong, Urban Dictionary, wrong-piping | 3 Comments »
It totally wasn’t! I wanted to link to it at the end of this article, just in case you’re not a paranoid social media professional, and it wasn’t there!
So I submitted it. It’s not quite writing a Wikipedia entry, but I’m feeling pretty smart. Here’s my defintion:
Wrong-piping: Accidentally using the wrong social media account to utter personal, offensive, or otherwise noticeably off-brand statements.
The wrong pipe may be used either by software glitch or user error (forgetting to switch accounts); the former holds slightly more water with an angry employer.
And my example:
After wrong-piping about her boozy weekend shenanigans one time too many, Heather was fired from her corporate social media job.
I named my fictional wrong-piper “Heather” for Heather “Dooce” Armstrong—not technically a wrong-piper, but in her honour as the generally-acknowledged first person to get fired in spectacular fashion for personal social media.
