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Here in this article it is about a Facebook user pretty much leaving a facebook version of a suicide note but not one of her 1,048 friends cared about this and just let her die without ever trying to call for some help. If one of your Facebook friends post a status saying “took all pills be dead soon”, Shouldn’t it just be common sense to try and get help to that person ASAP? In this situation the answer clearly was no as the women who posted this status instead received taunts such as being called a liar and also received a I don’t care attitude from her friends such as saying it’s ” her choice”.

After reading this article it made me think about the number of true friends people really have on Facebook. It’s hard to imagine any one having over a thousand real friends on Facebook which could be a reason why she received some of these negative responses after posting  her suicide note as these comments maybe came from people she does know in the real world.

Why do you think her Facebook Friends did not handle the situation appropriately?

Read the full article here .

“Do you Facebook? Do you Twitter?” That is not a question that I would have prepared for when interviewing for a job just a couple of years back. However, as we all know, things are changing so fast that we barely have time to catch up, and that may be an understatement. Everywhere you turn all you hear these days is Facebook here, Facebook there, or Twitter here, Twitter there and so on…. It is in our personal lives, jobs, political campaigns and religious gatherings. I remember my mother saying that the priest at her local church interrupted a sermon to answer a call and say to the caller that he was busy. The amazing thing was that the young priest put the phone on vibrate, and she said that they could hear the humming until an assistant removed it despite of the priest’s frowning. The president credits some of his success to Twitter, Facebook and texting.

I wonder, how is all this new technology helping the job market? Some are quick to say, well, you can network easier to find out about openings, look them up, and to forward your resume. There is no question that all that is great, but are their jobs being created? I don’t think so, but that is just my opinion. There have been many articles on the issue of how great social media can help those looking for a job, and also that we all have to include  social media skills in our resume for better employment opportunities. But I ask again, where are the Jobs?

The way I see it, is that there are many more advantages for the corporations to benefit from social media, as they use the employee’s social networks to promote their brands. It is a brand new and complicated issue that will take some time to evaluate where it is going or how it will help the average worker. Where do we draw the line when it comes to our personal and our professional lives? How far corporations  will go to promote, introduce and sneak their brands into our social networks? Do you want this new great application?.. Hmmm, if so, we need the keys to your life and those in it. These days our relatives and friends are being nicely packaged and sold to the best bidder.

The social Media corporations are thriving; their growth has been impressive, considering our crumbling economy. It’s all over the news, record profits for the big corporations, paralleling the social media giant’s growth… is there a connection here? Or is it just the product of my sociology courses gone wild?

The Times magazine has an interesting article  written by Zackary Karabel and in it,  it says: “Billions of dollars in investment capital are being spent on these ventures, and if we are to have a productive future economy, that capital needs to grow the economic pie — and not just among the elite of Silicon Valley and Wall Street.” Times magazine. So, here we are, busy polishing our social network skills to spread the corporate gospel to our friends and families.

Technology has shaped our society since the beginning of time, and it will take some pain to get adjusted to the new wave of communication advances. The new wave of social media industries are definitely not creating proportional employee demands as it is expected for their earnings and growth, so there is something wrong here that we must look into. The relationship between corporations and consumers is being shaped thorough a new social media rage to the disadvantage of the American worker, increasing the huge gap between the “haves” and the “have not”.

I believe that is a recipe for social disorder, where ironically, social media may just come to the rescue.

http://www.dermundo.com/www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2062464,00.html

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).
T
he video I uploaded spoke about all the aspects that is beneficial to the workplace but did they take into consideration the employee privacy.

We all know the internet has an extensive amount of influence over today’s society. Our class discussions revolve around the impact of social media on people and their interactions with each other. Our final project for this course includes our construction of our own Tumblr page which relates to this article that I found on Social Media Today. The article gave me some insight on what to include in my final project and may help you too in order to grab attention. It also shows us what we, as consumers, go after and the marketing tactics that appeal to us. When you break down the elements of popular pages of Facebook and other social media, there are several noticeable similarities.

The first common aspect of popular Fan pages is that they include eye-catching content such as “images with text, images alone, video, text, external links, and polls”. This data reflects our desire to be entertained by social media. People want variety and change along with a way to connect. It is only human nature to socialize, so pages that allow feedback are attractive to social media users. The article also reported that the top reasons fans choose to follow a page are that they are “being treated in a special way by the brand and can be spokesman for [the] brand” which shows that consumers want attention. It is natural for people to respond better to brands that seem concerned with them and give them special attention. There is a lot of psychology behind marketing that is often found in the way we may conduct ourselves through social media.