Hopefully we can bury this with info about online footprints.
Info on plagiarism for online content copying:
Please remember that plagiarism is defined as using someone else’s work and passing it off as your own, without putting the copied material in quotes (“”). The essay should be written in your own words! You may use an occasional quote to highlight a point or two that you are trying to make, but be sure to use quotes sparingly and only within the context of the argument you are making.
Please note that it is also not acceptable to “recycle” old essays that you may have written in other courses and pass them off as new research for this class. In short, your essay should be an original work, written entirely by you, for this class.
Papers with plagiarized material will result in a zero on the assignment and an “F” for the course!
I do my best to stay away from Social networks and the ‘Social Web’ if that’s what you cal it. Facebook’s privacy is unacceptable in my opinion. They keep records of everything you’ve ever done, including messages. By law, they are forced to give you every bit if information about you that they’ve stored. As I don’t use Facebook, I haven’t done a ton of research about requesting the information they have about you. I’m pretty sure in European countries there’s a form you can submit that forces them to disclose everything they have about you. I think you can do this in the US to through an email or something. I’m sure if I google’d it enough I could find something about it.
Most websites have Privacy pages that outline what info they store and what they do with it. Some websites can actually sell your information to marketing companies. Most people don’t want this, even though they are usually more happy with the ads and products they are contacted about (because the companies can do a better job of targeting the consumer)
A social footprint is just like a ‘carbon footprint’ or any other footprint. Its something you leave behind. Anything that is publicly displayed on your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, etc that can be traced back to you is a footprint.
Another example of a footprint would be googling your name. Names most often show up with Social Networking accounts. You can actually do something called Reputation Management (more popular with companies and organizations that for personal use) which stacks up a bunch of positive sites and profiles and buries bad news posts or info the person/business doesn’t want people searching their names to see.
Lots of colleges monitor Facebook profiles and other Social Networking accounts when they are comparing scholarship applicants. Lots of kids and adults forget that everyone can see what they do online unless they are protective.
Other online websites that are relative… Mostly just testing here to see a boost in these because there’s one site that I don’t like. Somehow its ranking well. Anyway, make sure to visit Nathan Lile and Nathan Lile Swimming.
) to a really really ugly old looking interface! It was a cool prank, and then the website spun around, just like getting “Do a Barrel Roll” on Google. Then, for the people that said “We love the new site” the site outputted a coupon code for a cheaper domain name registration.