Everyone knows they need to be more careful on social media now. College students are becoming more conscientious about what they post. They know employers down the road may frown on pictures of beer bongs and binge drinking. Parents are being more careful about what their kids are posting online. But what about the office party.

A recent hull survey has revealed that 80% fear drunken or sexy behavior at the company holiday party may end up on social networking sites. The study by the Village Urban Resorts Hotel in Hull revealed that 80% of workers admit they’re “petrified their drunken antics will appear on social networking sites.” A group of 1656 consumers were polled.

“It is so easy these days to use a smartphone to record embarrassing incidents at a work Christmas party.” Calum Russell of Village Resorts said.

The survey found with the influx of social media office workers were opting to leave their partner at home. While it may not be as embarrassing as shucking your clothes or kissing the boss, this fear of social media has even had some workers decide to sit around and talk rather than take to the dance floor.

Social media’s reach is a worldwide problem with office parties. Here in the states Christopher Parlo a partner at Morgan Lewis and Brockius in New York said “Social media at holiday parties now is the gift that can keep giving,”. Parlo admitted that the winter months his firm sees an uptick in clients asking how to protect themselves when the potential for alcohol or sex is looming. What used to be inter office antics now has a reach to the entire world.

“In the past, if something had occurred in the workplace and someone sat on the copier and did something inappropriate there, it would have a limited range of distribution,” Parlo said.

Several event dj’s on a popular DJ forum echoed all of these thoughts, going as far to say that some corporate clients have moved their holiday parties to afternoon mixers where the sun is still up and employees are less likely to drink. Other companies have completely moved to luncheons with white elephant gift exchanges instead of the all night parties in a hotel ball room.