Just last week it was reported that Facebook had one billion active users in a day. One billion people logged onto a social media platform to catch up with family and friends, play Candy Crush or connect in some other way. It’s become so much a way of life that I’m guessing a high percentage of those people never even thought about the fact that they were on Facebook – they were merely online doing what they do.
Facebook has become the megaphone that allows us to share our thoughts. It’s no longer just the place you go to when you want to stalk your first boyfriend (maybe that was just my reason for joining). We’ve become so comfortable with talking online and with the way Facebook projects what we’re saying that sometime we forget to censor what we are thinking.
We’ve all been there. I certainly have. I’ve posted in anger and without thought. I’ve deleted posts before actually publishing them because sometimes just writing about how you are feeling releases some of the anger and you don’t actually have to let the whole world know. I imagine that’s a bit how Hayley Neeson feels about her work related rant.
The Mirror reports
A nursery nurse has been suspended after launching into a foul mouthed tirade against children in her care – branding them “ w*****s” and “a*******s” on Facebook.
Hayley Neeson used the social network to complain about young children she was looking after while a trainee at Forgewood Nursery Centre in Motherwell.
The 18-year-old claimed she had been spat on, bitten and head-butted by three-year-olds, and that she was just ten minutes into her first shift when alleged bad behaviour started.
Posting on Monday night, she said: “First day back at work. Been in the room for at least 10 minutes and already been bitten, spat on, head butted and told to f*** off. Lovely manners of three year old children, bunch ae w******.”
Complaints came flooding in from outraged parents whose grievances ranged from “Her attitude is absolutely disgusting and she deserves to be sacked” to “I think she should have been sacked for talking about people’s children like that” and “She is supposed to be a professional and is paid to care for the children.”
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Neeson has been suspended and an investigation is underway.
I can’t help but wonder why, as a carer of young children, she should be held up to different standards to those people in other professions. If she were a cashier at the supermarket and she vented on social media about the impatient and often-rude people thrusting their perishables at her would she be in strife?
I’ve had my time in classrooms and, with respect to the mums of all the children I taught back then, I complained to my friends back then about your kids. When they were rude, when they farted (way too often), when they were whiney or just being bratty. They were 7 year-olds. It was quite often. I didn’t have Facebook but it doesn’t mean I didn’t tell my social network. As I am sure the mums whose kids I taught told their networks about their issues with me (particularly the fact that I was loathe to wear shoes and sent their kids to the tuckshop for me.)
I don’t condone Neeson’s choice of language to talk about the kids in her care but it’s her Facebook page not the actual classroom or a parent teacher interview. She’s an 18-year old girl whose life is often played out through Facebook. It doesn’t make her a demon, or bad with kids. It makes her human. And 18. And yes, I have thought about how I would feel if it was my kid. I like to think I’d talk to him about his behaviour and how it is making his teacher feel so desperate.
What it says about the parents who were calling for her to be fired, I’m not sure. It would be hard to believe they’ve never spoken badly about their work, or their day in general or vented about their kids and their friends’ kids. There would be very few mums who’ve not shared, in some way, about the often demanding and frustrating behaviour of children.
It’s not kind to talk about other people’s kids like that but maybe, instead of verbally abusing anyone, the adults involved could be talking to all the kids about their behaviour – and the biggest kid about her social media use. After all she’s only 18.
Have you ever posted something on Facebook that you regret?
It fascinates me that the parents weren’t the slightest bit concerned about their children’s appalling behaviour – biting! – just that the girl Facebooked that it happened.
I also fail to see how writing abusively to somebody on social media about their ill thought out use of social media in any way demonstrates your superiority as a human being. Daft eejits.