Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category
When I heard Google+ was coming out with a social network to rival Facebook, I pretty much brushed if off as yet another attempt unlikely to dethrone the King and Master of Social Networking. After all, I reasoned, unless Facebook really screwed up – resulting in a mass exodus – or went under, why [...]
I remember a few years ago when my local newspaper went online. At the time, I wondered why anyone would give up sitting in a comfy chair reading a paper to sit in front of a desktop computer to read. Even now, as much as I love and embrace my laptop and smartphone, I still [...]
What a loaded question that has become! It’s one that came up for me recently when someone declared to me, very adamantly, that you cannot. When I ask people what they get out of their social media, the answers usually go something like this: “I have reconnected with people I haven’t seen in years, and [...]
My last Blog post was about the Maryland Department of Corrections story in which an officer re-applying for his job was requested to surrender his Facebook log-in info as a precondition for employment. The officer complied, albeit reluctantly. Shortly thereafter, the Maryland ACLU filed a formal complaint. This article is a recent update which offers an [...]
If you’ve been on Facebook in the last few days, you’ve probably heard a report about the Maryland Department of Correction’s controversial policy of asking job applicants to submit their Facebook passwords and log-in info to conduct background checks. This was prompted by the re-hire of a corrections officer who was told he needed to [...]
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