Multi-Generation

Lidia Fierro is a native born Texan. She was born in 1963 which makes her part of the Younger Boomers. As she was growing up, there were no cell phones only landlines. Most of the communication was thru hand written letters, more face to face, and personal socialization. Technology was not as much advance as today there was not used of internet or email. Now in this generation internet and email is the hot spot for any social media communication and is not going to go away any time. Work clock in was more analog (written time cards) than now a day’s more digital (scan badge). The analog was more time consuming and records could easily be manipulated. As a child, I do remember my mom receiving only hand written letter from my dad who reside in USA. Fast food register were not efficient and not as many quantities/efficient as today. Electric type writers was the new and high technology, however Ms. Fierro was not exposed to it until 1988. The first computer she works with was also in 1988 when she worked for food stamps office. Paperless reduction era has been pushed since she began working; however she does not see as much progress. This point of view is speaking from working for public government agencies, throughout her entire work life.  Currently working for a governmental agency, I have to agree with Ms. Fierro; there have not been many sustainable changes to work process in these agencies.  Being able to adapt to social media changes is very difficult and uncomforting, due to the fact that social media nowadays from her point of view does not have any personalization. She refers to social media as a “mess.” I differ from this point of view simply because just like it is difficult for Ms. Fierro to adapt to new generation of social media it is also difficult for new generation to adapt to her former ways of communication.  She does not have a twitter account; however she does have a Facebook account and wants to communicate with old high school classmates. I can see her generation trying to adapt to current social media/technology it is difficult but what they are concern more is about privacy. It was a pleasure interviewing Ms. Fierro; I got to learn many different things about social media behaviors. During the city of Arlington's recent campaign to promote bike riding in Arlington, it used a mail/news paper ad campaign with meetings and conferences to reach the baby boomers because of their adaptation to that social media tool and they developed an app for mobile phones  and you tube videos to reach Gen Y because of their current use of technology, which using those social media tools made generation Y more attractive and ejoyable. Social media tools have to be tailor fitted for different generations.


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Social Media Privacy

I believe that privacy is not guarantee at all when you use social media. “A judge ruled earlier this year that users have no privacy rights in their Twitter accounts. Twitter is challenging the rulings and today made new arguments, including that individuals have a 4th Amendment right in their Twitter account and that deleted tweets are not automatically public.” http://gigaom.com/2012/08/27/twitter-files-appeal-in-major-social-media-case/

Each individual creating a social online profile should have the mindset that privacy will not be guarantee and be careful about the information that is been posted.

We should have the expectation of privacy and that is exactly what we have just an expectation.  The company’s privacy statement is too long to read and I just click on agree to terms and conditions. Therefore I only have an expectation of privacy from the company and it is up to me to do my best to have privacy. First of all I only add people who I know to online profiles and adjust privacy in account settings. Privacy with online profiles please, that is a joke, want privacy? Do not have an online profile. Once is published in the Internet it is there to stay and for the world to see.  “2010 has been a year of both growth and challenges for social media websites. Although more people and companies are finding innovative ways to use these websites, their successes have been marred by privacy concerns. In fact, as the popularity of social media continues to grow, the focus on privacy protection becomes even sharper among those who use these websites.”http://www.reputation.com/reputationwatch/articles/top-five-social-media-privacy-concerns-2012

 The circumstances are not going to change, we as profile users break our own privacy. Most of the time online profiles users create their own violation of privacy, by publishing personal information (phone number, email, address, work information, education). This issue about personal information is clearly explained in this video along with other privacy concerns.  

Having an online profile you have little or no privacy. Some profiles can be very addictive. Having inappropriate comments or uploads can lead to harassment or threats from opposite parties; also to not obtaining employment, emotional discomfort.  Online profiles are not for everybody, some people just do not have a clear understanding of what is the intended purpose of the profile. At the end each individual gives his or her own intended purpose.

What Can I Do? Social Networking Privacy: How to be Safe, Secure and Social

https://www.privacyrights.org/social-networking-privacy