As we discussed in class, how a person behave in social networks and how the person
actually is in real world isn’t the
same in most of cases. This is because the date about a particular person
collected by cybervetting is not reliable. So cybervetting of job application
is not good for not only employees but also employers because employers can’t always expect the exactly the same person as the person in social
networks even if they want to hire the person based on what he/she posted on
social networks.
As for schools monitoring their students on social
network,
I think a school should just leave students and don’t have to surveillant students unless a student does
something illegal. Also, a school shouldn’t try to see students profiles or postings on social
network service until some problems actually happened since as Boyd states,
teens likely seek the places where they can compensate for lack of freedom in
real world. If schools surveillent students and take their places to be free
from restrictions in real world, they would feel oppressed.
So basically I oppose cybervetting of job application or surveillance over students. However, I disagree with Andrews because lately most
of social networks provide us ways that enable us to block someone or set display
restriction on social network. Thus, making a law, Social Networks
Constitution, that bans any institutions from taking advantage of a person’s information posted on a social network is not
reasonable because we have a mean to protect ourselves even though what we can
do to limit exposure of our posting or activity on a social network. We should
be responsible for our own private information as long as we are given some methods
to do so. I think it’s not the government’s job.
