MY SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY

[Changes with time]

1. Connecting: Introduce yourself and tell me why you want to connect
~There should always be a reason people are trying to connect to you. That reason needs to be stated clearly, whether it is just to be friends, related to my career or just a distant family member that wants to connect. Other questions can also be answered such as have we meet and what is your background.
2. Follow, add, friend: Only people I know
~I add friends based on a couple things. First I check if I know them and whether or not I would like to connect to them. If I don’t know them or can’t remember them, then I will look at common friends or check their back ground to see if I know them somehow.
3. Privacy, boundaries and safety: Limit everything
~I make my page on FACEBOOK so everyone can see it but I never put anything that I don’t want people to see. Some people try to make it so that only people close to them can see the full content of the page. I on the other hand make it so that everybody gets the same information about me and it is always limited information. I you want to get to know me at a deeper level than you just have to hang out with me.
4. Signal to noise: Update useful information
~Updates need to be limited around me. I don’t really want to know what you are doing every second of your life unless it is useful to me somehow. A great example of that is don’t tell me you are stuck in traffic, tell me you are stuck in traffic on I-75 and it is taking you a hour to go 10 miles. That information can be very usefully.
5. Personal data and sharing: Finding long lasting friends
~When I share information, I am looking for someone who shares my interest and likes to do the things I like to do. I also use it as a way to communicate long distances with people who don’t live near me. I also use it as a way to catch up to old friends and relatives. It is always a good chat what you are talking about old memories.
6. My networking needs and uses: Socialize and Educate
~FACEBOOK for me is just sharing pictures and chatting with friends. It is a means to socialize not really a learning environment. On the other hand twitter for me is a way I learn about new information and current events. I really don’t try to communicate in a social manner on twitter. Other than these two social media I really don’t use anything else.

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