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Author Archives: nichola.smith
Posts: 5 (archived below)
Comments: 2
The pros of blogging.
It is a new trend now everyone is interesting in blogging. It a new way to express your opinion and provide information about a subject matter and be rewarded sometimes for it. It another form of social media that is claiming the interest of many. Blogging allows you to fully express what on your mind and gives you the opportunity to choose from a wider range of privacy setting options. Blogging unlike social networks such as face book allows to choose a privacy setting which allows only a specific audience to view your blogs. you are given the choice to have your blogs open to internet search engines or the choice of creating a pass word for only you and selected individuals to view your blog.
Another pro about blogging is that it opens up a world of opportunity in the workforce. For example a future journalist. BLOGGING allows you to create a specific brand for yourself so that your audience or even an employer can identify you by the blogs you produce. Many employers take the opportunity to search blogging sites so that they can get their hands on the next “big thing” or an employee who has shown great potential in their writing and can be a great asset towards their company.
The video I posted shows the pros and cons of blogging . It shows that blogging can have a negative effect on your personal brand because not everyone would share the same opinion with you and can prove you wrong damaging your credibility…
Posted in Assignment 5
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privacy in workforce.
It has come to my attention that the internet is taking a step into the workforce. The overall appearance of your cubicle is known to have four wall barrier that contains a desk and chair. You are forced to use the space you have to personalize it as you see fit but you are never private because these barrier are about four feet in height. Your workspace is completely open for the eye to see. Now there is a recent trend when you enter some offices these barriers no longer exist and your work area is completely public to everyone that enters the room. Mangers are the only personnel with privacy because they are enclosed in an office with a door for extra privacy. Ever wonder why this is so?
To me it reminds me of a face book profile where your desk is considered to be your wall….. you do not have the option of a privacy setting. Its so weird to me that anyone would think of the idea to remove the only source of some privacy in the workplace. This just shows how much of your life is not private anymore how much everyone wants to peer in once in a while to see what you are up to. The internet has definitely established a way to show people that putting their private life on surveillance twenty four seven is not that bad and can be beneficial to some people (employers).
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he video I uploaded spoke about all the aspects that is beneficial to the workplace but did they take into consideration the employee privacy.
Posted in Assignment 4
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Your facebook acount settings maybe private is it really?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBZrynmd7cU
Social Websites such as face book, twitter, my space allows you to create a user name and password to help keep profiles private where you the account holder is the only person that has access to the account. But in realty it is also known that once you post information on your profile it is considered no longer private because it has become part of the cyber world known as the internet.
Have you ever recalled logging into your face book account and you see links such as http://lilbituly/0sssz2 and dont know who sent it. These sites are known as fishing sites. These sites should not be clicked on because they are used by hackers to fish your password by redirecting you to a ‘look alike’ face book log in homepage that requires you to enter your user name and password.
Once the information is entered on the ‘look alike’ homepage it is sent directly to the hackers account where they can review your information with the use of your password. Shocking right? it is also known that you should never have the same password for your email and face book accounts because this only makes it easier for your information to be retrieved.
To sign up for face book and any other social site is free but the information you provide is owned by the social site. this reminds me of Josh Harris project where he said everything is free except for the videos he captures, he owns.
Posted in Assignment 3, Uncategorized
Tagged Josh Harris, Privacy, Social Media
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the dangers of posting too much information on facebook
The dangers of posting too much info on social networks.
The above video shows the dangers of having a facebook account an other social networks. It talks about keeping your private life private,evaluating what you should and should not post on as your status update and how the information requested by social networks can be harmful to your lifestyle. the video to me therefore shows a connection knowing your audience a topic which have discussed in class.
Firstly, the updating of your status should be kept on a level where your personal life remains private.eg updating your status stating Im goin to be home alone for the night or stating the exact date and time of your whereabout for that particular day. It is extremely important not to do this in a case you do not know all of your friends personally on facebook. As Kayla Mitchell stated in the video she has over 400 friends an know them personally this is why she can share here whereabouts an personalize her status updates.
Another issue is the posting of pictures and being tagged in them. The consequencs of posting thes pictures can be extreme at times where many people have lost there jobs from the routine background checks done by employers or even denied a job by an employer because of their pictures being public. It is considered that the only way to have sum control over who see your profile is by costomizing your account to friends only.
Secondly,the information requested by these social networks such as your credit card informatiion, phone number, address should also be kept off facebook because it helps prevent identiity theft. There have been many reports of identity theft victims due to the fact that they provide these social networks with access to their personal infomation. On many times i been on facebooks and there are games such as farmville and yoville which require you to provide credit cards account to buy points to further your level in the game and to my knowledge there are people who do.
In conclusion the video provides you with knowledge of what you should be kept private and what shuld be kept public and also shows connection between our class discussion about ‘knowing your audience’ which should be highly considered while having a social network account.
Posted in Assignment 2
Tagged Facebook, Privacy, Public v. Private
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Texting while driving…..
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/hot_lists/high_performance/features_class…
Came across this video and found it very disturbing……who would have thought that texting while driving is more dangers than drinking and driving under the influence although both can cause the same damage.While driving and texting the video shows that the reaction time is much slower than the individual under the influence if alcohol. Its the same as talking to someone while they are texting. To me there is no way you can fully have the attention of the texter because it also obvious that sum of the information relayed to him or her would be lost in translation even though he or she she remember most of the conversation. While texting you fail to realize that time goes on and that u are in way separated yourself from the real world and unconsciously entered into a social network but at the same time,time is constantly moving and its not until you focus your attention back to the real world you realize what you have missed out on alot while you where texting.
