How important is our online footprint?
December’s Tony Delroy’s Nightlife looked at the risks of social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Along with being a great way to communicate with family, friends and colleagues using online services can have some unexpected effects.
Program podcast
A recording of the program is available from the ABC’s Tony Delroy’s Nightlife webpage. You can listen to it through the site or download it and listen to it as a podcast.
Topics covered
Tony and Paul covered a range of topics including the following questions;
- Are we living in the social media age?
- What is social media is?
- Why people use social media?
- How some folk have come unstuck using social websites?
- Can doing the wrong thing hurt your reputation or career?
- What the risks are during the christmas party season?
- Are there too many social media services?
- How businesses can really use them?
- Where will these services go next?
Listeners’ questions
We had a great range of questions and comments from listeners and those we promised to get back to included how to shut down your Facebook account and the link to report abuse on the service.
Reporting Facebook abuse
If you’re being harassed on Facebook, you can report misuse at Facebook’s Help Centre. Their page includes instructions on dobbing in underage users, blocking irritating people and how to use their privacy settings.
Deleting a Facebook profile
Leaving Facebook is not easy, so on the Netsmarts website we have the detailed instructions on deleting your Facebook account.
Note with these instructions that you need to disable any applications you may have installed on Facebook before deleting the account. When you go to the Applications page you may be shocked at how many things are connecting to your page.
Do we have too many social media services?
Tony asked if we have too many social media platforms.
This is a topic we’ve covered previously on the website and while there’s no doubt many of the services around today won’t survive, some will become increasingly become important.
Next Nightlife tech program
Our next program will be on February 9 next year. We will probably have some spots over the summer break and we’ll let newsletter subscribers know about them as soon as we do.
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