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Harsh Reality or Overkill?
In Old Saybrook Connecticut, a high school ran an internet safety assembly.
Yet many students felt violated and that the school had infringed on their privacy. The school used photos, tweets and status updates from freshman that were required to attend the assembly.
The school found these items because students had no idea how to protect their privacy, which is something that we have spoken about in class often. Debating the idea of protecting our Internet privacy and younger generations living in a world where everything is sharable.
The principle of the school insists “say the purpose of the assembly was to make students aware of how public their “tweets,” photos and profiles are online if their privacy settings aren’t strict enough”. The school used photos and other items that were publically accessible.
I think the students that are outraged should be learning a lesson and understanding that it is not only their friends who can access their internet personas but parents, teachers, etc. I believe the school taught its lesson on privacy in a really effective way, by showing the lack of it that so many students have.
New York Social Media Week
In an article published on January 13, 2011, author John Egan discusses the predictions people have made for the future of “social media in 2011.” The article was entitled, “2011 Social Media Forecast: Privacy Concerns, Tumblr, E-mail, Facebook on the Rise,” and the author mentions thirteen different predictions that companies have made for the future of the internet, which reminded me of the video we watched in class since the protagonist was so knowledgeable on the future of the internet. A few of the predictions definitely stand out as they are happening already. One in particular, made by MSLGroup states that, “social networkers will realize their online friends with too many co-workers and acquaintances. As a result, they may scale back their Facebook friends or turn to social networks that are more private.” I have definitely seen this trend occurring already, especially with numerous amounts of people getting fired due to what they do/say on facebook.
The article also, in a way, seems to be proposing somewhat of a demise of facebook in 2011. Forrester said, “facebook doesn’t own social media in 2011,” however I think right now they do. On the other hand, I think it is almost a matter of time before people stop using facebook and move solely to twitter (though I do not have a twitter account) or the next new social media website. People are always looking for bigger and better; anyone remember myspace? Myspace will, in my opinion, soon be a nonexistent site since it seems that barely anyone still has an account, and out of the people that do have accounts, many do not even use it. I presume that the same thing will happen to facebook.
History of Tweets!
http://cac.ophony.org/2010/04/16/archiving-tweets/
I was brought about reading this article for my history class and thought it was very interesting because historians are thinking of archiving every single tweet that is put out for the public to see. Now some may say this sounds ridiculous because there are a number of things people say that are useless. However, if this goes through there will be a large library with tweets stating everyones thoughts,actions and feelings. Though I am not a member of the twitter community, I think that archiving these tweets may in fact some way serve its purpose, whether it be that people in the future can tap into our thoughts that will be history or that perhaps someone tweeting now is saying something that will make them famous when they are older or well after they have passed. With this developing idea there also comes a question of privacy. What happens to those who do not want their thoughts saved for people to see in the future? Does this in fact go against privacy policy? In my opinion I believe that once something on a public service site is opened by an individual it is no longer as private as one may think. You may be able to make it private but for that mili second, who knows your tweet could be saved. It is difficult to establish how people will react to this situation. It is not yet determined whether people have a choice or not whether they can have their tweets saved but we will just have to see when the uproar begins.
Companies Taking Advantage of Social Media
Written by Brian Stelter, “TV Industry Taps Social Media to Keep Viewers’ Attention” shows the way companies are starting to use the impact of social media for their own gain. This New York Times article focuses on how the ABC network is taking people’s use of sites like Facebook and Twitter to benefit themselves financially. As people start talking about the Academy Awards, ABC has made a second site dedicated to more footage of Oscars. This way, they not only monetize through the airing of the Oscars, but also through the website visitors wanting to see more from the awards.
Stleter claims, “many people feel they have to watch some shows as they premiere in order to keep up with conversations online”. Witnessing this happen on my Twitter timeline on nights of Real Housewives and Jersey Shore airings, I can see this effect. If I am not watching a particular show, I feel that I need to close Twitter or be confused by the influx of tweets reacting to the latest scandalous statement. Watching the Academy Awards last night was no exception as the “Oscars hashtag” flooded my timeline.
While I can see that this may be a clever marketing strategy, I feel that it is a way to take advantage of social media for financial gain. Companies like ABC have taken the opportunity of the impact of events and what Stelter has refered to as a “two screen experience”, such as the Oscars, to further add to their bank accounts.
Homeless and on Twitter
This morning i came across this article on the New York Times website and it kind of blew my mind. To give you a quick idea on what this article is about, it starts off discussing a man named Derrick Wiggins, 44, who is homeless in NYC and who is on twitter. He is one of the four homeless men from the streets of NY who were given prepaid cellphones so that they could create a Twitter, develop a following, and then document or tweet about their lives. This is part of a project by three college grads who intern at the BBH advertising agency in TriBeCa. They were given $1,000 and told “Do something good, famously.” The result was a website called UnderHeard in New York, and the goal is to “help homeless New Yorkers speak for themselves through Twitter.”
The article goes on to tell us about the going ons of Wiggins life documented on his twitter page @awitness2011, for his now around 4,500 followers which are from all over the world including Brazil, Italy, and Australia.
This article i think speaks about how universal twitter, and social networking in general is. It’s kind of amazing actually that through social networking we now have the opportunity to take a glimpse into the life of the homeless: the shelters, the subway rides, the job searches, and thats just Wiggins.
In class yesterday we discussed why people post on facebook (this is twitter, but the same action of posting is involved), and maybe for some it’s attention, but for Wiggins “just the fact that somebody is listening” helped him persevere. He said, “I’ve received what I need to keep going.” Sometimes that’s all that is. The need to share your story and know others care. You feel less alone in the world. Twitter has obviously helped Wiggins keep going just as much as it’s allowed us to view the world from his shoes.
