I am a member of the Facebook community and always try to
keep my profile clean and positive because I am friends with older family
members and friends. It is important to
me to be portrayed as an adult, mature and responsible. I usually untag pictures and delete comments
that show otherwise. Another reason to
keep my profile clean is that potential employers usually check social
networking sites before hiring an individual.
A new feature that Facebook has installed is the “remove from timeline”
option. This is a nice tool to remove
information from your profile that you are not fond of. The information is still visible to the person
who posted it, so their feelings aren’t hurt.
To me, this is a win-win option.
Social media is an online representation of the self. We are able to choose who we are and what we
like. It is one of the most popular
means of communication in today’s world.
It relates to conflict because a person may lose a job opportunity or
friend based on the interpretation of a negative posting. If a person wants to be viewed as
responsible, I believe it is important to censor your page because many people
will judge a person based on the information that is posted and visible to the
public.
I think that we are a lot alike when it comes to how we use Facebook. I like that you said that you used it and want to be portrayed as an adult and mature! Mature is a great way to put it, because a lot of people put things up that can be seen as “appropriate” but not necessarily mature. It seems like you do a lot more than I do such as untag yourself from pictures and delete comments. Maybe I just haven’t had to do that yet (I don’t seem to remember being tagged in a picture that I didn’t feel was appropriate). I do really enjoy the remove from timeline feature. It may not permanently delete something (since “everything you put on the internet stays on the internet”)but at least it hides it for the most part. And I completely agree about the ability to lose a job! There was also that incident a while ago where a women who was getting disability for being depressed lost her disability when her insurance found pictures of her on Facebook having fun. Now, I think that this is an extreme case but it definitely shows conflict!
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ReplyDeleteLike you I like to keep my profile clean on Facebook, but I do so because I am friends with my co-workers and my bosses. When I don’t like something that is posted about me or I am tagged in I would delete it because I don’t want people to see certain things about me. I also like having a clean profile since I like being portrayed as a certain person. I noticed that I have unintentionally been doing this since my last year of high school. I like how you want to do this because you want to be portrayed as an adult who is mature and responsible because it is helpful to think that way with these social networking sites, especially when you are trying to find a job. Anyways, good job this week!
I completely agree with what you say regarding job employers being one of the main factors for censoring your Facebook page. I hear stories all the time about employers looking on employees or potential new hires' Facebook pages and twitter accounts and judging people more off of information encountered online than off their resumes or a simple judge of character. They way that we portray ourselves is key because so much judging is done in the initial encounter or the first time someone sees your Facebook page. Making a good first impression is probably the most important part of communication because bad first impressions and good first impressions have one thing in common, they both are remembered.
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