4/20/12 Blog Post

Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter plan on taking a larger role in this years Olympic Games.  Many of the top competing athletes such as Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, and Roger Federer are all people who use Facebook or Twitter and have "likes" or "followers" in the tens of millions.  Twitter and Facebook also plan on having contests for their followers and supporters with many prizes for the people tuned into the Olympic games.  It seems that nowadays their is no escaping social media.  No matter what the event, there will be people tweeting or posting something about it, and this is how news is getting spread so quickly.  Instead of watching ESPN to wait for the Olympic highlights that were might have missed, all one needs to do is sign onto Twitter or Facebook and click a posted link or read a tweet and he/she can get the same information without waiting at all.

Post for 4/13/12

As many of you may know, many employers look as the potential employees Facebook page before officially hiring them.  Some may consider this an invasion of privacy, other think it's perfectly normal.  I don't see anything wrong with them viewing your page to see what type of person you are, but when they ask for your password that is where I draw the line.  Employers are starting to ask for passwords so they can literally go through anything they want, including private messages, personal conversations and things like that.  At first I didn't even believe it when I heard they were doing that because that is a complete invasion of privacy.  There is nothing wrong with them looking at your page, isn't that what it is there for to begin with? So that others can see what you post, what pictures you upload...ect? If you don't want people seeing this stuff you can very easily make it more private.  But the fact that they are asking for complete control over your profile is out of hand.  It is none of their business to go through your personal stuff like that and the more people let them have their passwords, the longer this is going to go on for.