Introduction

Around 61.1% people in the world are employed and work in offices and faces job stress. Job stress is an emotional responses that occur when the requirements of the job do not match capabilities, resources or needs of the work and it includes several reasons like long hours, heavy workload, job insecurity, conflicts with co-workers and getting scolded by the boss. Often people vent out their anger and stress by grumbling to co-workers or sometimes shouting or fights at their homes. But nowadays new social platforms have been developed to help people vent their anger by electronic means. People share their negative experiences and opinions on the internet about their stress and work offices.

Workplace stress also has adverse effects on workers mental health with an increased risk of anxiety, burnout, depression and substance use disorders. Psychosocial stressors are arguably the most predominant stress factors. Workplace stress not only affects the worker, it has adverse effects on company performance well. To get rid of these stresses and anger social platforms are made where people can share their issues.

People disclose their negative experiences in order to prevent others from suffering a similar incident and for helping company to improve their performance by keep their identity safe. Workers use negative emotions for drawing attention to their dissatisfaction in order to get solution or compensation.

Cyber venting is the act of denigrating about one’s employer, senior executives, etc., with the motive of letting out the anger and frustration using online websites. Cyber venting relaxes and calms people in short-run. Even though emotions are felt on individual level, through these platforms people come across various organizations, faces same issues shared their experiences or happenings with other. Instead of isolated experiences, on social platforms emptions clusters and many studies shows that emotions can bring people together. Also, these sites enables anonymity which in turn makes people more honest which also enhances company improvement scope. Cyber venting makes organizations transparent in an unparalleled way.

To vent out anger, emotions and thoughts there are entire websites called rant sites. Some of these are hatebook.com, justrage.com, boredat, vent box, ripoff report and various other sites. These sites not only keep identity anonymous but also provides different services. There are only dedicated to allowing people to vent and provides a forum to vent about whatever they would like, these websites have become common and popular these days.

But very little do people know about the immediate emotional impacts on not only ranters but also on the writers of rants.

In addition to positive consequences, it has also been seen side effects of cyber venting such a loss of control and power to manage organizations public image. The odds of brands insults and the loss of confidential information have increased. Also, in addition to this psychological studies has shown that negative experience impacts greater on people. Studies shows that negative events grow more rapidly with space or time than positive events.

Not only this but some studies also states that cyber venting only helps in short run and relaxes us only for sometimes. So, it is therefore reasonable to say that social media is powerful tool and must be used accurately. For a longer run, people can relieve their office stress in other ways like taking time outs, breathing, organizing and prioritizing different work, meditation and exercise, listening to music and various other ways can be used.