Continuing the discussion of online reputation, I
encountered two catchy stories today on my iPad while having dinner on a day
trip to Charlottesville, VA. When you go
on the road, the mice will play.
One of them considers the effect of one’s LinkedIn
recommendations or endorsements on one’s own online reputation, particularly in
the workplace. Jose Pagliery has the
story on CNN (url) here ,particularly about the resignation of Pax Dickinson from Business Insider for
his “personal life” tweets, glaringly reproduced here (warning – disturbing). But Bob Pearson, of
the W2O group, is reported as having warned that online reputation, as to
merging personal and professional life, is more seamless than ever. Facebook (and its policy of “no double lives”,
an apparent belief of Mr. Zuckerberg) has seen to that. (By the way, that’s why I give Mark
Zuckerberg some credit for helping end “don’t ask don’t tell”.)
Another story today reported that a Glendale CA
school district has hired a private company (Geo Listening, link) to monitor the off-campus social
media activity of its middle and high school students (if over 13), as WPTV
reports here. There’s apparent controversy about the “Fourth
Amendment” and the First – but not so much so, because it’s only scanning
public posts. But would you follow
people around in the real world? Here,
public posts are more likely to become widely known, so it seems as there is
some justification for the practice, in intercepting harmful behavior (ranging
from cyberbullying to suicide threats).
Is this “Minority Report”? Would Geo Listening be contracted to monitor teachers and even subs?
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