Q1. What
do you think of Stacy Snyder’s story? Should she be denied a degree for
publicly endorsing drinking to her underage students? To what extent do you
believe that potential employers should explore social networking sites to
validate the goodness of potential employees? Is there anything on your
Facebook page that might turn off potential employers? If so, are you going to
take any action?
I would say that the story of Stacy Snyder’s was
quite an unfortunate considering there are many others like her such as young
and has decent career, did the same.
Her
intention was not on the sole purpose to endorse drinking but just to share her
activities like many young professionals at her age. Her actions probably to
show that being a teacher also needs some kind of social life style or she may
not fit in among her friends.
In her
case, her website exposed her real identity and made publicly to others even to
her fellow potential employer. Social networking has certain use to its
advantage. Depending on what you pose a story inside, that reflects your self
and other to think who you are. If you uploads contents that is suitable for
everyone to read, then it may have good impact to readers. However, as a
viewer, some sort of information-literate as knowledge worker should be
possessed. The information should be viewed as business intelligence to certain
extend.
I am not
an active Facebook users, and careful what I pose information on it.
Should there be any information posted that could be harmful to me or
jeopardize my career or family, I would definitely delete it.
Q2:
The webcasting of funerals is an interesting example of the flatness of the
world. Is this an evasion of privacy or do next-of-kin have the right to
make such a decision? What other significant events in a person’s life
might be suitable for webcasting? Identify at least three such events and then
do some research to determine if webcasting of those events is already taking
place.
The IT
using internet to webcast of any event has benefited the people to
communicate due to distance. In this case, webcasting of funeral over the
internet could pose a solution for those friends and relative who could not
make to the funeral to watch or streaming real life or for the next 30 days.
There
are examples of significant event in a person life might be suitable for
webcasting such as meetings, weddings and graduation.
Q3:
Osama Bin Laden represents a very dark image for most Americans. His
participation in the planning of the September 11th attacks will forever mark him as evil.
Should people like Rashard Mendenhall, who make positive or perhaps even
neutral comments about terrorists like Bin Laden be fired from endorsement
contracts? Can making such comments be considered grounds for termination
of employment? Maybe dismissal from your school as a student?
There is
information which sensitive to most of us. If the message seems bias to the
opponent, probably you will be questioned by the majority who are supporting
the actions. Though it seems that he has given neutral comments, for him, but
to the extremist it may not. Posting or tweeting message during this event by
giving positive response, may spark anger or hatred among the people who are
supporting the action. This will cause unexpected incident to happen.
Making
such comments, ethically, may not lead to dismissal or termination. In US, they
practice freedom of speech (but maybe not freedom of tweet) everywhere, which
everybody accepts whatever opinion that is being said. It is such a
honest remark which few of us have, but the only difference was that it was
made in public.
Q4:
Very few people would question the service and commitment of military personnel
to our country. The two sergeants who created the YouTube video openly
criticized Delta Airlines for its charging of baggage fees to military
personnel. Is this open for criticism of businesses and their practices
acceptable? Will it help businesses be more accountable to customers?
There
are times where military officers to have special attention and particularly
for Government employees. Delta Airlines may apply same baggage fees across the
board, regardless of who you are attached with. Using the media technology,
YouTube, among these military officers, seems irrational. If this happen, then
US Army will claim to have free baggage fee to rest of the army officers. In
business, for Delta Airline, they could lose millions of dollars should they
provide baggage fee as complimentary. And, worse case scenario, it has to be
applied to all airlines.
Q5:
The use of Facebook (or any social networking site) can truly make the person’s
life transparent, available for the whole world to see. Should there be
legislation regulating the openness of your life on the Internet? Can we expect
society somehow to regulate this without any laws?
There
should be a self regulating the openness of one’s life on the internet. It is
up to the person whether he or she would want to share to the whole world or to
selected friends or none at all. In Facebook, there is a function which
you can enable it, for viewing among friends only or to the intended person.
In
organization, information posted will be filtered by the managers to which it
will benefit the company and its business.
As
posted in www.zdnet.com on
October 2012, Malaysian and Singapore will not enforce regulations on how users
post their contents in Facebook or Tweeter or any application of internet
social media. It was mentioned that “Singapore, Malaysia unlikely to implement
social media laws: The two will not likely follow in footsteps of
others in the region, because it will be a "huge leap" from how they
manage other cyber-related issues with potential public backlash”.
Additionally,
Malaysia make its stance not to rule out any laws on contents posted on
internet social media while advise users to be prudent to post contents for
public views. Posted on www.borneopost.com
dated November 2013, the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission
(MCMC) head of industry surveillance and enforcement, Zulkarnain Mohd Yasin,
said self-regulation was crucial to address abuse of the social media in the
country. He said consumers should be taught to not use the social media
to stir racial sentiment, spread lies, poison the people’s mind to an extent of
damaging public order.“Although there is no content control or legal
screening in the social media, social media users, like Facebook and Twitter,
should have self-regulation on contents and information which they shared, as
well as to not send negative content.
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