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In our fast-paced technological society, I would like to think of data as a currency. Why so? Most social media platforms marketed as ‘free’ to use. However, instead of monetary compensation to these social media platforms, what we users are ‘paying’ to them is our data and personal information. Continue reading →

I am glad we finally got a topic that allows us to explore and concentrate on different issues from each other! I feel that with regards to privacy, misuse of personal data as raised by Zaidhan’s post and YongYou in his video as well as identify thefts are the most prevalent and harmful issues with regards to social media ethics. Dayna raised the problem of identity theft in a Human Resource(HR) recruitment perspective. Continue reading →

As mentioned in my post for Topic 4, I feel that privacy is an important ethical issue that needs to be highlighted for companies and individuals to take note. As the Internet is widely used by individuals all around the world, data sharing is especially common and cyber footprints are left behind. This leads to individuals having their privacy exposed to private companies or to hackers who would use their personal information to their own benefits. Continue reading →

Credits: businessnewsdaily.com Honestly, I found topic 4’s question to be rather heavy. As the general topic seems pretty broad, it was indeed a different experience as we all got to write from different aspects about ethical issues. Differing from what I covered in my post, Gin wrote about the ethical issue of A/B testing among companies and their consumers. In 2012, there was uproar as Facebook tweaked the algorithm for an experiment on users without consent. Continue reading →

Source Social media as an educational tool today is beneficial as such it pulls together students into one platform to facilitate learning, and its versatility in incorporating multimedia like powerpoint and videos altogether make learning very cohesive. Educational use of social media has been increasing with the benefits it brings. This module is a good example of educational use through social media like blogs and Youtube; I enjoyed it very much as I don’t need to go to school. Continue reading →

  From eye-catching titles to biased reviews of products and services, the nature of social media easily involves ethical issues. The public often look to the Web for accurate and up-to-date information, however, the information is often being “packaged” in a certain way and is inaccurate. According to statisca.com, there are 2.34billion social users worldwide, which is about 32% of the entire population. Continue reading →

Oxford Dictionaries define ethics as moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity (oxforddictonaries.com). While humans are granted freedom of speech, in social media there seems to be many misuses by users (nytimes.com, 2015). What’s more important is that networking sites are not responsible for those misfits. Instead, the consequences will all fall to the users. Continue reading →

Ethics refers to the basic concepts and fundamental principles of decent human conduct. It includes study of universal values such as the essential equality of all men and women, human or natural rights, obedience to the law of land, concern for health and safety and, increasingly, also for the natural environment. (business dictionary,2016) social media is so perfectly designed to manipulate our desire for approval, and that is what led to her undoing. Continue reading →

  The Internet is a scary place There are a few issues on the unethical use of social media (Vinjamuri, 2011), however the most significant issue to me was compromising of consumer privacy. To start of the topic, I have decided to use a different approach of a short intro on how businesses exploit the use of social media to obtain our information. Continue reading →