The purpose of our Social Action Project is to educate many individuals about internet privacy. However, we are more so trying to educate people about the harm that can come from carelessly posting things on social media websites such as Twitter, Facebook Instagram. Not to say that we are always tempted to post destructive things on the internet just because we all have easy access to social media through cell phones and computers, it is more based on the fact that social media has become very popular today and it can harm us if we use it to post anything reckless. Consequences of such actions include: getting fired from a job and losing a job opportunity. This is because since social media websites have become so popular that companies have started to look at social media websites in the process when they are considering hiring a new individual. That is how companies today can find out other aspects about the person that is seeking their job opening.
We plan to educate people about this privacy exploitation through a form of Guerrilla Art. The specific way we are going to use guerrilla art is through making bookmarks and putting them into books in the school library. This way we are putting around 300 notes around in the library that people will unknowingly as well as inevitably come upon and learn about issues that their lives are in the face of.
Included in this article below are several examples about how harmful social media websites really are. For example lets take the case that includes a school teacher named Ashley Payne. Ashley Payne was forced to resign from her job in 2009 because she posted inappropriate pictures on Facebook as well as posted a picture of her holding glasses of alcohol. Even though Paynes Facebook account was private, her boss, the principle eventually found out about these pictures and status posts. He in response asked Payne to leave with resignation.
Even though Paynes profile was Private, she still posted material that was not suitable for a teacher to post that. It is actually not appropriate for anybody to post material like that. We can easily learn from this example as well as the several other examples of how social media has ruined peoples lives
http://mashable.com/2011/06/16/weinergate-social-media-job-loss/#gallery/xx-people-whose-tweets-have-impacted-their-jobs/50bddfb731829767ca0003bf
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