Online communication has the potential to create "oops" moments where we hit "send" to the wrong person, or cause unintended anger or embarrassment.
In 2008, Carat Media Agency meant to send an email to lay-off a certain person from their job, instead the email was sent to the entire company telling EVERYONE to clear out their desks and leave.
In 2009, admissions staff at University of California, San Diego sent a welcome email to 46,000 applicants: “We’re thrilled that you’ve been admitted to UC San Diego,” it stated. Just one problem: only 18,000 of the 46,000 had actually been accepted.
Goldman Sachs is of the biggest investment firms on Wall Street, a contractor accidentally emailed confidential client account data to a complete stranger's address at a "gmail.com" account instead of a similarly spelled internal "gs.com" account.
Rita Ora, British pop star, suffered a social media humiliation in October 2014 when she tweeted that she would release her new single on Monday if she got 100,000 re-tweets. But despite having nearly four million Twitter followers, only 1,000 people re-tweeted her.
Teachers are watching the internet. Teacher replies "Yes. Tensions ...have remained high to this day, especially when savvy professors browse Yahoo Answers the night before papers are due & look for questions they assigned. See you in class tomorrow!" -->
Teachers will find out. Pictures on the internet are never totally private. Unexcused absence for her.
Teachers & parents are on social media too!
Back in 2011, it was reported that an extra on Fox’s award-winning show “Glee” was fired after tweeting spoilers for an upcoming episode.
Threats and rants will be taken seriously. An 18-year-old High School student in Massachusetts was arrested and jailed for three weeks after posting rap lyrics to Facebook. The lyrics suggested that he wanted to reenact bombing in a public place.
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Hooray Moments Online-
The internet and social media can be useful and positive as well.
Summer 2014: #IceBucketChallenge
This was a social media awareness campaign aimed at spreading the word about ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease). The task: those nominated for the challenge (publicly and overwhelmingly on Facebook) had 24 hours to share a video of themselves being doused with ice cold water (and nominating others for the same challenge) or face the penalty of making a donation to the cause. The ALS Association reported over $100 million in donations in 2014, a significant increase over the $19.4 million donated the previous year.
Bully Facebook page–
The Bully Project is a documentary following five kids for one school year to see how students, schools and parents deal with bullying. Just by looking at this page, you know the goal is to educate and prevent further bullying in America.
Social media can help promote community service projects.
Social media can be used to lift peoples' spirits and inspire greatness and positivity.
Dove
Dove #SpeakBeautiful & #NoLikesNeeded Twitter campaigns will encourage women to realize the role their online words play in impacting their confidence and self-esteem. (Watch the videos below.)
DO THIS --> Start a Tip sheet
Start making a list of "Netiquette Rules to Live by" for yourself and friends.
Think about the oops moments and how to avoid them.
Think about the hooray moments and how to promote them.
Think about what you signed on your internet pledge.
You will share your finished list with someone at the end of the workshop.