Watch out oldies, the schools of the future are on their way – to a social networking site in your lounge room. A new service, Elgg, has developed an open source social networking platform that is targeted directly at the education market. As reported at Wired, the service allows users to create their own personal [...]
So there’s some concern about the manner in which data is near-permanent. This not-so-apparent feature of our online activities on SN sites can leave reputations in tatters. The fear being pedaled around the popular media circles is that future employers will use SNS’s as a way to can a person’s budding career. My earlier post [...]
Here’s a few comments on an article from Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies London, Los Angeles, New Delhi and Singapore Vol 14(1): 13–20 Facebook’s Privacy TrainwreckExposure, Invasion, and Social Convergencedanah boydHarvard University and University of California-Berkeley, USA Boyd argues that changes made to the public feed feature on Facebook have [...]
By Kevin Lo Damned if you do and damned if you don’t by the sounds of what Kevin Lo has to say. Here he recommends that companies be vigilant about what information finds its way onto SN sites, such as FB. He recommends either banning mention of the company at all, or at the least [...]
With the rush of organisations banning access to social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, I can’t help wonder if there’s more than a little bit of double-standards at work. Let’s say for a moment that a worker participated on LinkedIn as a way of forming a better network, would they find this acceptable? [...]
Dana Boyd claims that: Social network sites do not help most youth see beyond their social walls. Because most youth do not engage in “networking,” they do not meet new people or see the world from a different perspective. Social network sites reinforce everyday networks, providing a gathering space when none previously existed. I can’t [...]
A recent article on ZDNet suggests that social networking is a huge drain on company resources. The article reports that the practice costs businesses $6.5 billion pounds caused by staff spending on average 30 minutes per day on social networking. Around 30% of this cost, it is claimed, comes from the consumption of band width. [...]