Week 10

Earlier on in this unit I realised how many so called friends I have on face book, and thought most of these people don’t live in my area.  So I thought to myself what I say on my status, would I say it to them by other means, text, talk.  The answer was no, some of these people I haven’t talked to for years.  That’s were a different friend meaning comes in to it.  So I went on to control who I send my status to.  The moral to the story is I now have more control, but does this defeat the purpose of the site. I think yes, my close friends and family already know what I am doing most of the time. 

I see the benefits of social networking to improve the ways we keep in touch with each other, and maintain relationships.  However the early days in social platforms need some work to filter our identity more.

One of the groups from collage explains once he joined the workforce after collage he didn’t change his profile or photos from his social networking site because he sees it as fun, and it relates to his personal life.  This person has 35 of over 200 friends that are employees.  He states if his boss ever did see these photos I would like to think he would understand.

The difficulties of having simultaneously both professional and non professional connections through a social network, reveals many problems in today’s world.  I can see how we need better content managing tool’s to control very quickly.

I have heard in the past of people getting sacked over what they writing on their facebook page, about their employers.  Most people I know use the social tools to keep in touch with their network of friends in a personal way that’s ok until it gets mixed.

DiMicco, J.M.  &Millen, D.R. (2007). Identity management: Multiple presentations of Self in Facebook. In Proc ACM Group Conference, 4-7 November 2007.
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Leaver, T. (2010). Module 3 Introduction – your Internet Footprint. Retrieved from http://lms.curtin.edu.au