Week 6 Reflections

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Week 6 Reflections

 

               I  am actually posting this week's reflection during week 7, as I was focused on taking COMPS last week. You may have noticed that I am fan of comics. I felt the above comic reflects at least in part some of the topics represented in week 6's readings. With reference to  Abbas & Agosto's (2010) article about high school teenagers interaction with social media. I was not surprised to read that teens might not be of issue and online privacy issues. Which to me is a bit ironic, as most teens I know, (my kids included) covet their privacy. But, it think with any new medium, (not that it is that new) such as online social media sites, users and especially younger ones need to learn it's challenges and how to best navigate through that virtual world. As one male high school senior said, he thinks there will always be new types of technology available for communication; but, as another student who was female pointed out, interacting online takes away from time available to hang out with friends. What I have observed is that teens are great multi-taskers and it is not uncommon to see teens hanging out with one bunch of friends while engaging with others on line, usually via thier cell phones.

       What I took away from Ellison, Steinfield & Lampe's article was in spite of privacy abuses, teens using Facebook viewed its use as gaing a larger social connetion and that the young people are staying connected and maintaing relationships longer.
  

       With regards to use and benefits of using socail media for business, it is clear that most business are engaged with one type of social media tool for promoting their business; and, (reputation) is a big part of that online presence (week 8).  These 20 free tools as mentioned by Bercovits, (2012) help companies track their growth.

References:
Abbas, J. & Agosto, D. E. (2010). High school seniors' social network and other ICT use preferences and concerns. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 47 (1), 1-10.

Bercovitz, L. (September 5, 2012). 20 free social media monitoring tools you should be using. Small Business Trends. Retrieved from http://smallbiztrends.com/2012/09/20-free-social-media-monitoring-tools.html

Ellison, N., Steinfield, C. & Lampe, C. (2007). The benefits of Facebook "friends:" Social capital and college students' use of online social network sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12 (4), 1143-1168. Retrieved from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00367.x/pdf