Title: Social Media Policies for the Military – SSML
Headings: Social Media Policies for the Military
Social Media Policies for the Military
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Content: -Use copyrighted media. -Post details about your assigned unit’s mission or security procedures. -Announce locations and times of your unit deployments. -Release information about the death of a Service member before the next of kin is notified and the information is released by the DOD. -Post unit morale or personnel problems. Recent examples of social media and digital communication mishaps within the military that led to further education and updating of social media policies are below. A fitness tracking app created activity maps of its users, and these maps were accessible to anyone who clicked on a user’s profile. This might not be bad for some, but in areas like Afghanistan, Syria, and locations in Africa, these maps reveal heavily used routes for military members that not only gave away running routes, but movement routes, base locations, and more. With politics taking center stage every day, there is so much revolving around recent and future political races. The U.S. Army has strict guidelines for how their personnel can or can not take action on social media: