Social Networking (Ethics in Information Technology)

Editor's Notes

• #4: 1.A social networking Web site is a site whose purpose is to create an online communityof Internet users that enables members to break down barriers created by time, distance,and cultural differences.2. Facebook 1.5 Billion users, twitter 200 Million, myspace 50 million, linkedin 238 million; from wiki
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• #7: sources:facebook, emarketer, infodocket, cnn, allfacebook 2012, gizmodo
• #8: Social network advertising involves the use of social networks to inform, promote, and communicate the benefits of products and services.Social network advertising has become big business in the United States, with 2009 ad spending on Facebook estimated to be $230 million, and ad spending on MySpace estimated to be $495 million.12
• #10: 1.Direct advertising involves placing banner ads on a social networking Web site.2. An ad can either be displayed to each visitor to the Web site or, by using the information in user profiles
• #11: 1.Companies can use social networking Web sites to advertise to an individual’s network of contacts2. This might be a spontaneous message sent by Jared, or Jared might be getting paid by an online promotion firm to send messages about certain products.3.unethicial
• #12: Innovative companies are also making use of a new marketing technique by creating a group on a social networking Web site that interested users can join by becoming “fans.” These groups can quickly grow in terms of numbers of fans to become a very effective marketing tool for a company looking to market contests, promote new products, or simply increase brand awareness. In its ongoing fight for market share in the beverage industry, Coca-Cola has implemented a number of social networking initiatives to promote its brands.
• #13: 1.Since its launch in February 20072. the Dell community has suggested 11,996 ideas and posted 84,851 comments; 3.Dell has implemented 350 customer-submitted ideas.18
• #14: V1.iral marketing encourages individuals to pass along a marketing message to others2. as one person tells two people, each of those two people tell two or three more people, and
• #15: Buzzillions Product review Web site that collects thousands of product reviews from the Web sites of various retailersCrowdstormShopping resource that aggregates product information from various online buyers guides, reviews, and blog postingsKaboodle Site where members can discover and recommend new products; get discounts; and locate bargainsOSOYOU UK-based social shopping site for women with an interest in fashion and beauty productsZEBO Site that allows members to create a personal profile about what they own, want, and love to shop for; members can check out one another’s profiles, provide
• #16: MySpace, FaceBook, and other sites have been the scene of cyberbullying and online predation. But the same technology allows people to connect with others they might never have met and form meaningful relationships.Some people believe social networking sites offer the ultimate in egalitarianism. When we interact with others online, we have no real way of knowing whether they are white or black, male or female, fat or thin, young or old.Certainly, many people turn to social networking sites to connect with social groups that share their interests and values.What impact will digital media have on these virtues? What, for example, would honesty mean in the context of a world where people are represented by avatars?Utilitarian PerspectiveFairness PerspectiveCommon Good PerspectiveVirtue Perspective
• #18: Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm or harass other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner.
• #19: According to recent survey among 800 students ages 13-17 , about 43% had experienced cyberbulling in the past year. Cyberbulling is more common among females and among 15-16 years old .
• #20: Ryan Halligan, a 13-year-old boy in Vermont, committed suicide after bullying from his schoolmates and cyberbullying online. Megan Meier, a 13-year-old girl from Missouri, also committed suicide when she was harassed by a fictitious boy created by neighbors with whom she had had a falling out.
• #21: Sending mean-spirited or threatening messages to the victimSending thousands of text messages to the victim’s cell phone Impersonating the victim and sending inappropriate messages to othersStealing the victim’s password and modifying his or her profile to include racist,homophobic, sexual, or other inappropriate data that offends others or attractsthe attention of undesirable peoplePosting mean, personal, or false information about the victim in the cyber-bully’s blog
• #23: When the offender is known, victims should send the stalker a written notice that their contact is unwanted.Evidence of all contacts should be saved.Victims of cyber stalking should inform their ISP provider.Victims should consider speaking to law enforcement officers.Above all else, victims of cyberstalking should never agree to meet with the stalker to“talk things out.”
• #24: Talk to your kidsUse parental control software Monitor your children's use of social networking sitesNever download images from an unknown source Never reveal personal information Never agree to meet someone
• #25: Most websites do not have sufficient resources to review all material submitted for posting.In April 2008, six teenagers recorded their beating of 16-year old Victoria Lindsay and planned to post it on Myspace and Youtube.On May 20,2009, an organization group of users uploaded video clips of explicit adult content to Youtube. The clips were uploaded with no warning at all. Even worse, they were tagged with child friendly identities.
• #26: An online virtual world is a computer-simulated world in which a visitor can move in three-dimensional space, communicate and interact with other visitors, and manipulate elements of the simulated world.
• #27: A visitor to a virtual world represents him- or herself through an avatar. a character usually in the form of a human but sometimes in some other form.
• #28: Communication: Avatars can typically communicate with each other via text chat or via voice using Voice over IPShopping and Office: shop, hold jobs, run for political office, develop relationships with other avatarsPromote events: promote events and hold them in the virtual worldBusiness: start up new businesses and create or purchase new entities
• #29: Use virtual currency: use the virtual world’s currency to purchase goods and servicesEarn Virtual money: earn virtual world money by performing tasks in the virtual world. avatars can convert their virtual world money back into real dollars at whatever the going exchange rateVirtual items: Virtual world items may also be sold to other virtual world players for real world moneye-commerce: also support e-commerce and allow users to sell their own real productsMost virtual worlds have rules against offensive behavior in public, such as using racial slurs or performing overtly sexual actions. However, consenting adults can travel to private areas and engage in all sorts of socially unacceptable behavior
• #30: Virtual worlds raise many interesting questions regarding what is a criminal act and whether law enforcement.Example:trafficking in actual drugs or stolen credit cardsonline muggings and sexual crimesCyberharrasmentIn The Sims Online, a number of players formed a “Sim Mafia” and attacked the avatars of unpopular players. The group would send a flood of insulting messages to the targeted character, then trash the target’s virtual property, and finally demand that the target delete his or her avatar from the game.A man playing the Lineage II online game was arrested by Japanese officials for using software to mug avatars and then sell the stolen virtual items for real money.A player of the online game MapleStory became so upset about her sudden divorce from her online husband that she logged onto the game with her virtual world husband’s ID and password and killed his avatar. The woman was arrested by Japanese police and jailed on suspicion of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating electronic data. Under Japanese law, she could be imprisoned up to five years or fined up to $5,000
• #31: The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international consortium of almost 300 organizations focused on exploring the use of new media and technologies to improve teaching, learning, and creative expression. The NMC attracts nearly 1,500 unique visitors to its Second Life campus each week. Princeton, Yale, the University of Southern California, Ball State, and New York University are just a few of the schools with a campus in Second LifeMedia Grid’s Immersive Education Initiative is an international collaboration of universities, research institutes, and companies to define and develop open standards, best practices, platforms, and game-based learning and training systems. Amherst College, Boston College, the City of Boston, Loyola Marymount University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Seton Hall University are some of the members of the Media Grid.Members of the New Media Consortium and the Media Grid can conduct classes and meetings from within a growing number of virtual learning worlds.Second Life is used by the marketing firm Rivers Run Red as a virtual meeting place to display ads, posters, and other designs in three-dimensional settings for clients and partners around the world. Using virtual meeting space can cut weeks off the time that would be required to transport the actual materials back and forth for a real world meeting