(CNN) -- This week, veteran Cleveland marketer Kelly Blazek learned the hard way that you should watch your words -- especially when you put them in writing -- after a nasty digital lecture she delivered to a young job seeker went viral. In her sarcasm-laden message to recent graduate Diana Mekota, who'd asked to connect with Blazek via LinkedIn, Blazek wrote: "Your invitation to connect is inappropriate, beneficial only to you, and tacky. Wow, I cannot wait to let every 26-year-old jobseeker mine my top-tier marketing connections to help them land a job. ... You're welcome for your humility lesson for the year."
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Job seeker posts sarcastic, mean reply from marketer and it goes viral
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Peggy Drexler: Marketer was wrong but young jobseeker was wrong to post it
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Drexler: Young women need mentors, and marketer failed to help her
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Drexler: Posting on social media to humiliate someone is a form of bullying
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@placeholder's words were, of course, undeniably, and likely unnecessarily, harsh, especially considering Blazek has made her name as an advocate for Cleveland jobseekers, creating and updating a popular local jobs bank with some 7,300 subscribers.
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Blazek's words were, of course, undeniably, and likely unnecessarily, harsh, especially considering @placeholder has made her name as an advocate for Cleveland jobseekers, creating and updating a popular local jobs bank with some 7,300 subscribers.
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Certainly, it's hard not to wonder why @placeholder -- a professional in a field where image matters, a lot, and an avid social marketer besides -- didn't anticipate the possibility that Mekota might share the note with others, although it turns out this was not the first time Blazek had delivered such an admonishment.
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An undoubtedly kinder, and wiser, alternative, of course, might have been to simply ignore @placeholder's request.