http://www.easternecho.com It seems like the same cycle is repeated every time a new social networking site crops up. At first people are apprehensive, but curiosity gets the best of them and they eventually become addicts. en-us Gryphon 2.3.1-dsw (pewabic)/Foundry5 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:41:52 -0400 webmaster@easternecho.com http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/96 You see, this would be a problem if Twitter support staff actually listened to their users, which they don’t. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:13:00 -0400 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/96 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/122 It’s not Facebook’s, MySpace’s, or Twitter’s fault that the “victims” of such horrible, depraved mismanagement of mental scruples are eventually caught. Social media is exactly that… SOCIAL. If you stand up at your next cocktail party and announce that you’re getting breast implants… well… it’s out there and the repercussions are yours to deal with. Similarly, you can’t charge Twitter (et al) with keeping idiots form incriminating themselves or filtering content to our children. It’s simply a matter of ethics. How long has it been since an Ethics 101 course was over-booked? Can we blame parenting? Sure, but don’t forget all of the lackadaisical marketing executives, most media outlets and virtually all of Hollywood. The future of communication is going to be driven through social media. Heck, I even found this article through a friend of mine on Facebook. So, technically, it’s my responsibility, as a marketer and as a role model for following generations to participate in social media with ethical, reasonable candor. It’s my responsibility to educate and foster those values. Long lost are the days of plopping the kids in front of the boob-tube and call it babysitting. Because the boob-tube has been replaced with YouTube and we KNOW what can be found there. There are a lot of unethical, unreasonable people out there. There always have been. But we can’t expect the social media developers to protect us. That’s our job. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:41:52 -0400 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/122