attended a one-day seminar in Cebu City last week and boy, was it information overload. The seminar, sponsored by Smart Communications, crammed four heavy topics into a one-day session: Social Networking, Blogging, E-Newsletter Production and Cyber Laws.
I learned so much but I wish they gave more time for the seminar so the topics can be spread out into at least 3 days, perhaps, as each have so much to offer.
There are so much I want to blog about, but I'll have to spread them out into bite-sized posts. (This is one of the lessons I learned during the Blogging topic: keep it short and simple because humans have short attention spans.)
For this post, I'd like to start with an info I found the most interesting and it has to do with Cyber Laws. The laws that apply IRL (in real life) are basically the same online. So if you spread lies about a person either through emails, blogs, online forums and social networking sites, you can be sued for libel. If you're the subject of these lies, you can sue the person who's spreading them.
It's even more dangerous when you harass or defame someone online because your emails or posts can be copied or screen capped, your ISP can be tracked. On the internet, once it's out there, it's out there forever.
So do think twice before sending that defamatory email or posting a malicious status or tweet about someone, even if you believe you are in the position to do so. It might backfire and you end up in a painfully embarrassing situation.
Remember, whatever you say online is a reflection of your character in real life. How you behave on the net is also how you behave in real life. If you start slandering someone online, you'll give other people the impression that you deserve whatever act of oppression you're crying foul over.
As my friend Mike told me on FB, you are what you post. So always think twice before you click.
I learned so much but I wish they gave more time for the seminar so the topics can be spread out into at least 3 days, perhaps, as each have so much to offer.
There are so much I want to blog about, but I'll have to spread them out into bite-sized posts. (This is one of the lessons I learned during the Blogging topic: keep it short and simple because humans have short attention spans.)
For this post, I'd like to start with an info I found the most interesting and it has to do with Cyber Laws. The laws that apply IRL (in real life) are basically the same online. So if you spread lies about a person either through emails, blogs, online forums and social networking sites, you can be sued for libel. If you're the subject of these lies, you can sue the person who's spreading them.
It's even more dangerous when you harass or defame someone online because your emails or posts can be copied or screen capped, your ISP can be tracked. On the internet, once it's out there, it's out there forever.
So do think twice before sending that defamatory email or posting a malicious status or tweet about someone, even if you believe you are in the position to do so. It might backfire and you end up in a painfully embarrassing situation.
Remember, whatever you say online is a reflection of your character in real life. How you behave on the net is also how you behave in real life. If you start slandering someone online, you'll give other people the impression that you deserve whatever act of oppression you're crying foul over.
As my friend Mike told me on FB, you are what you post. So always think twice before you click.
We should always be responsible for the things we do. I agree - think before you click or post.
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Great reminders! Super agree especially may power talaga ang written word... Careful, careful! :)
ReplyDeletetrue! some people are a lot "braver" online thinking that their posts/emails do not have a face attached to them.
ReplyDeleteWhat we need is blog ethics. http://jennyotoole.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-ethics.html
ReplyDeleteVery nice tips Chelle. to make it bite sized i learn to KISS (keep it short and simple) with blog post and then TTBYC (think twice before you click!) haha. thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteno one should be exempted to the responsibility attuned with the convenience of technology
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely correct: "You are what you are in your post" It reflects what kind of person you are. Those people who are browsing the Net are most of them are busy. They are also in a hurry. As what you've pointed out they've a little span of interest. So as a matter of rule, a blog should be written in a least of 300 words.
ReplyDeletegreat tips!!! tama naman din sinabi mo.. I agree with this statement: how you behave on the net is also how you behave in real life. If you start slandering someone online, you'll give other people the impression that you deserve whatever act of oppression you're crying foul over.
ReplyDeleteIt's also the same when posting your status in Facebook....you need to be careful on what other people may think about you.
ReplyDeleteYeah our attention span is so short, whenever I open blogs if it's all text I will backout., hehe I need visual aids unless you write like Dan Brown then I can go with my imagination and finish your 400 pages writing in one sitting.. Hehe..
ReplyDeleteVery good reminder to people na medyo taklesa and owver kung maka post ng mga pakiramdam nila or opinions sa mga social networking sites. Think twice or more before doing an act that you will regret in the end. :)
ReplyDelete"think before you click" ika nga :) Information overload man I believe you learned a lot!
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely true. We need to be very careful with what we post in Facebook. It's either they make us or break us. Most often when we post derogatory remarks towards someone instead of gaining more friends and sympathy, they break us - they break relationships and they break people's respect toward us.
ReplyDeleteso true. think before you click. naku, dami niyan sa facebook, mga status na nakikipag-away. =(
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. Cyber actions needs a lot of responsibility and cautiousness.
ReplyDeleteI guess the same rules should apply in commenting too not only on social media threads.
ReplyDeleteI never fail to check what's on Yahoo news every morning.. yung iba lalo na kung celebrity news andaming mga walang magawa at walang magandang masabi as in yung iba sobrang degrading na yung kanilang mga komento... nakakairita! Sana yung mga ganitong klaseng pagko-komento e, magawang mapansin ng board of censor at nang mabawas-bawasan naman yung mga irresponsible internet users sa mundo.
Nancy
our writings reflect who and what we are in some ways just like our handwriting which can be interpreted. if we post substantial topics and we discuss them in our own words... the reader will definitely sense our personality as a person. we may not be a good speaker but we have all the means to express our deepest emotions through our hands.
ReplyDeleteI agree that we should think first plenty of time before we post. but when someone still disagrees or thinks that the posts is offensive, it is best to back it up as always. ^_^
ReplyDeleteI didn't know smart has seminars like that. nice naman
ReplyDeletetotally agree!
ReplyDeleteyeah so true..there's no big difference between online and offline lives..maybe, just the fact that you can't personally talk or spank or do negative stuff about the person, but other than that, these are just the same..doing bad things against others is really a no no!
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