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Topic 4: Social Media Ethics

Source – http://zeendo.com/info/social-media-strategiesfor-e-commerce/ Using social media has been a popular tool for businesses. However, there has been an uproar over the issue on privacy and how businesses are disregarding the privacy of the users and even exploiting it. In the following post, I would be showing you how even the social media companies themselves are making use of information to enhance their business. Continue reading →

Being ethical on Social Media

According to wearesocial’s results about the growth in the number of active social media users. The number of reported social media users have grown 10% (219 million) since Jan 2015, resulting in a total number of 2.31B of active social media users. (image source) With the increasing amount of social media users, we should consider the role of ethics in online sharing and communication. From the statement extracted from theguardian. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Blurred Lines Between Ethical Use Of Social Media

Source: http://www.supercalafashionistic.com Nowadays, the Internet is used in the workplace so much that it’s almost considered a necessity. This brings pros and cons in aiding company’s operations but may affect employees’ productivity. While working, employees tend to get distracted by their own accounts every now and then. I believe, many of us, would have checked Facebook at least once throughout the working day. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Social Media Ethics

HEY!! IS THAT RIGHT??! Credit In the digital world today, customers often take their experience straight to the web. More than 92% of online shoppers incorporate reviews before makeing purchase decision. This evidently shows that people believe that ” what they see is what they get “.  If the customer expresses a positive experience, the review can be amplified on the web and social media to encourage others. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Facebook or Fearbook?!

Click to view slideshow. [Source: afoxlee & underconsideration] Facebook has MANY benefits, uses for all to enjoy, however, have you ever stumbled upon the downsides and unethical issues of the most popular Social Media platform worldwide? Just by putting text information here will not be sufficient to convince you, hence for this blog post, I have added in various interesting videos as evidence supporting my point. Continue reading →

Topic 4: They are watching you

(Image Credits: The verge ) I need to be honest about something. I work freelance in social media advertising and am a part of two online startups. How do I know what are the trends? Pretty simple. Pay for information. Analyse trends on what you share and what kind of posts you click on. It helps us to judge and predict behaviour and in some cases actually “provide everything the customer needs”. Continue reading →

Discuss ONE of the ethical issues raised by educational or business use of social media that you consider to be particularly significant.

Good afternoon! Today I would be discussing an ethical issue raised by business use of social media. To begin with, what is an “unethical behavior”? It’s as simple as knowing the right thing to do, then doing the wrong thing (Shepherd). Identity theft is an example, where 17.6 million Americans were victims of identity theft (BJS, 2014). Nobody wants to go through what Ruth Palmer experienced. Continue reading →

Topic 4: social media ethics

Please read these notes and check out the links below, before preparing and posting your answer to the set question. This document should be regarded as just the start of the discussions, which are then developed over the next two days through the conversations themselves and the sharing of further relevant links. These articles are intended to give you a flavour of the topic, and get you started on answering the Topic 4 set question below. Continue reading →