Q. Explain the ethical and/or political goal(s) of your social action project. Explain its ethical and/or political significance as your collaborative considers what it hopes to achieve. (250 words).

A. We have a plan to place inserts into library books so that we may inform people of the dangers of posting material recklessly on social media websites. We are hoping to prevent our fellow John Carroll students from posting foolish things on social media websites. These posts could affect them negatively later on in life, especially in the process of being hired for employment and enrolling in graduate schools.

Our social action project has a theme noteworthy to college students. The audience for our inserts are going to be applying for jobs within the next few years. A majority of John Carroll students currently have accounts on such social media sites as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. On these social media sites, our peers post potentially embarrassing, job-threatening things daily.

Ethically, they have the freedom to post whatever they wish. However, if potential (or current)  employers were to see some of the posted material of potential employees, they have a right to deny these posters of their could-be jobs. It is up to the social media users to regulate their posts, only posting what is in good taste.

As for social media and security, security on social media sites should be tightened according to each individual user’s preferences. If an individual desires to post things of an obscene nature, let him do so at his own peril. He can potentially not be hired, or he could also lose his job.