Future implications of Social Media
We should prepare our children for the future ramifications of their online and social network behaviour! As every action as an equal and opposite reaction. As technology and analysis techniques get more and more advanced, so do the chances that your online comments or posts will get analysed and affect your future. You can already get fired for something you say or do online. Imagine what the future may hold. Visualise in a few years; there will be an analytic application that will process every comment or post ever written by you online or your mouse clicking behaviour and the output will be your personality profile. This may warn an employer not to go near you because of bulling behaviour, or tell a university you shouldn’t be in their top pick for Vet School because your pet bunny died of unusual causes when you were 7. Or it might send a potential boyfriend running for the hills because of your internet stalking behaviour. ...