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No estés en esa red social si es pública.

No estés en esa red social si es pública.
Don't be on that social network if it's public.
From Lesson 131:Irregular negative informal commands (no vayas, no seas)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about No estés en esa red social si es pública.

Why is it no estés instead of no estás?
To tell someone not to do something (a negative command), Spanish changes the verb ending. For estar, the negative tú command is no estés. If you said no estás, you would just be stating a fact: "you are not."
Why does this sentence use both estar (estés) and ser (es) for the verb "to be"?
Estar is used for location or physical presence, so no estés en esa red social means "don't be present on that social network". Ser is used for descriptions and characteristics, so es pública describes what kind of network it is permanently.
Is red a feminine word?
Yes! Nouns ending in -d are usually feminine in Spanish. You can see the sentence matching this gender: it uses the feminine word for "that" (esa instead of ese) and the feminine adjective for "public" (pública instead of público).
What does red literally mean?
Red translates literally to "net" or "network". So, red social translates perfectly to "social network". Notice that the adjective (social) comes after the noun (red), which is the standard word order in Spanish.

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