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Chao
Zhao
(Ryan)
6555985@student.swin.edu.au
Faculty
of
Information
Communication
Technology
Swinburne
University
of
Technology
Social Media
The concept of Social Media has become popular since 21th Century with a increased signification number of active user (Humphreys, R 2011). Usually, people spend a lot of time on social network to watch video clips online, visit an official company web site or visit friends social network page (Hutton, G & Fosdick, M 2011). Some of popular social media services are Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Bolgger, Instagram, Quora, Youtube and Foursquare. This article discusses social media how relationship connects between public and business organization. The social medias privacy issue is discussed. There are some different opinions and agreements on social media topic. The top four issues are business related, public information, education for youth generation and policies. Social media employ mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms via which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated-content. (Kietzmann, J, Hermkens K, McCarthy, I & Silvestre, B 2011, p.242). In the 1997, Sixdegrees offered user a profile page and list of friends. This is known first social network site. After Sixdegree closed, Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook (Kietzmann, J, Hermkens K, McCarthy I, & Silvestre, B, 2011). Nowadays, many company use social media to connect with customer external or employees internal (Deans, P 2011). Many companies created Facebook pages to control the relationship between loyal customers and obtain more potential customer. In 2009, Economist reports that company can make more sales from social media, because the peoples decision of purchase is based on the friend suggestion (Colliander, J & Dahlen, M 2011). With inside a organization, HR department could use social media to contact staffs immediately (Deans, P 2011). Secondly, The young generations are labeled as Digital. They live with computers. They are the largest group of users on social media (Lenhart, A, Purcell, K, Smith, A & Zickuhr, K 2010). They spend lots of time on the Internet and social networking. There is a debate that the impact of social media to teenagers. Recent studies indicate a negative association between academic outcomes and the use of video games, SNSs, and other types of electronic media. (Jacobsen, W & Forste, R 2011, p.275). A report shows that a student took a longer time to read an article online if they use social network site at same time (Jacobsen, W & Forste, R 2011). On the other hand, Liu, Y (2010) found that social media tools could provide valuable resource to students. This report that represents that top four reason to use social media for academic purpose is social engagement, direction communication, speed of feedback, and relationship building. This could reduce the investment of education for educators (Liu, Y 2010). In my
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opinion, social media tool can help students to access academic resource anywhere. However, social media should not distract students. In conclusion, the social media will improve the peoples life. It provides fast speed of communication. However, young people are easy to addicted to social media. The parents should help young people reduce the use of social media tools.
2011). Website uses cookies and spyware to track user activities. A recent case is that Google collect personal WIFI data. It includes MAC address, IP address, broadcast name and geography location. The Australian Privacy Commission investigates it. Google just respond as mistake (Hearn, L 2010). Internet is open to everyone in the world. It is free for every to exchange news, idea, concepts and information. Nobody can control the Internet. Wikileaks is a website that provide secure and anonymous way for publish leak information. It published some negative news from U.S Army. U.S government decide to offline the website. The intellectual property is any unique product of the human intellect has commercial value (Quinn, M 2012). Many people downloaded music, movie, game and software from Internet without charged. This is not fair for someone pay full price, when some pay less or no money. The high quality of software is easy to use, because they can meet customers requirements. However, project team produces software with huge defects. The software defects is errors that can cause system to fail. A defect may cause money lost for banks (Reynolds, G 2012). After carefully reviewed this article we can conclude that there is a need for ethics in information and technology professions as well as integrated in any of the organization. This literature has two main aspects: valuable knowledge about ethical training in computing profession and to implement ethical training in organization.
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