Sunday, October 10, 2010
Do we really know what we're doing?
In the book Blogging by Jill Walker Rettberg, (2008), there are many topics brought up that make the reader think. One that particularly stuck out to me was at the end of chapter 3 while talking about Facebook and other social networking, "When a piece of software... presents such traces of your life in chronological order, those traces become an extended narrative, an autobiography created on the fly..." This really made me think back; middle school posts on my Myspace, my old Xanga where I posted grammatically incorrect nonsense about some petty pointless problem happening that minute. I think I've matured and I really watch what I post on my Facebook these days... I mean I have to since I'm friends with my mom and dad (they have a shared Facebook page), my aunt, older cousins, and both of my managers from work. Since the internet is so advanced and complex and anyone can find information about anyone, I like to present myself in a somewhat respectable manner. There can be potential employers digging up dirt on me and I want to make sure the present part of my records are clean. Not that I'm a bad person, but I would like to look more mature that other Facebook users who post inappropriate things every day five times a day, can anyone else relate?
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I can't exactly relate to what you have said, but I can discuss my own experience. I have seen over the years exactly what you describe up there, I can't count the amount of people I have talked to who have regretted putting something up on a social networking site which somehow got back to someone in a position of power over that person. This, among many other reasons, has kept me away from such networking sites. Personally, I feel that anything you want to know about me can be asked of me in the proper situation, not taken out of context when its read by someone it was not intended for. That is just me, though. Thank you for sharing your personal story with me, it helps to illuminate the changes these kinds of sites bring about on people and how they benefit them as respectable adults.
ReplyDeleteI can also relate to this situation because I do have family on facebook and I am very careful as to what I post on there. I've never really posted anything too personal on Facebook or Myspace but innocent gestures on the web can be taken the wrong way, especially pictures. So, I rarely post pictures on the social networking sites that might offend my family or friends. You have to be very careful as to what you do on the web because everything is stored on the internet. A personal account I have is when I googled my name with my friends because we were just messing around, but I actually found one of my facebook pictures on google images. That definately kind of freaked me out, I thought you know what if somebody used my pictures for wrong things? But, on the internet nothing is private, so you just have to be extremely careful.
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