Tuesday
When Harry (Online Profiles) Met Sally (Professional and Personal Lives)
This video scratches the surface of how online, personal and professional lives are converging and the challenges that may lie ahead.
For example, does a teacher believe that because his Facebook profile is set to private, his students (past/present) have no access to the content and comments he posts online? What issue(s) could this present for the employee, the employer and/or the unions?
There needs to be a lot more dialogue on this topic.
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You bring up some good points. Fortunately, I think our school would be "clean" (cleaner, anyway) since all the teachers are Facebook Friends with all the kids and parents. And I think that speaks to the attitude of these things. These people recognize they are big social networks.
ReplyDeleteFor example, we tell our kids there are some inappropriate reactions from some of the people and that's just how the people are. If you don't like them, or perhaps the way they interact in this particular context, you simply delete them from your list. You are not obligated to be their Facebook Friend.
Furthermore, I've seen some pictures or comments that may have been fun at the time but probably shouldn't stay up. Sure enough, the owner will make some comment (or a friend will), all will agree, and they take care of it themselves. I'm quite proud of them when they do that.
So let's keep teaching the kids (small AND the big ones) to keep being responsible and not try to policy and regulate them to death. We already have enough intervention by the governments! :)
Gregg, you need to get into broadcasting
ReplyDeleteHey Anon,
ReplyDeleteThank you -- and my mother always told me I had a face for radio (cue rim shot).
Hey TheDuck,
First off, thanks for the comment.
Your school may be ‘clean’ but in the spirit of the Super Bowl I would put money down that most people (including most teachers at your school) don’t recognize the viralness and consequences of the networks they are posting to.
I was not touching on what kids are posting. Believe me, that is a whole other topic that I plan to interview my teenage daughter on - LOL, OMG, ROFL... I do like your point of letting them do what they do and then leaving them to be responsible for vetting their own posts.
My point is not to police or govern what people post but for people to police and govern what they post themselves before their online reputation comes back to bite them in the butt.
Cheers,
g