{"id":657,"date":"2020-01-30T15:18:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T12:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/?p=657"},"modified":"2022-10-13T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:10:48","slug":"the-u-s-how-to-know-what-to-post-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/2020\/01\/30\/the-u-s-how-to-know-what-to-post-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. \u2013 How to Know What to Post on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aur\u00e9lie Dubru <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog post was produced as part of the course \u201cSocial Media, Ideologies, and Ethics in the United States\u201d at the University of Turku.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image: Pinterest<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Albert Camus once said: \u201cA man without ethics is a wild beast loosed\nupon this world,\u201d and I could not agree more. Ethics was one of my favorite topics\nof the course, mainly because I think that it is in constant change and each\nsociety or people have different opinions on what the limits of ethics are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding social\nmedia, it is particularly hard to find these limits. Social media are supposed\nto be a platform where people can express themselves freely. However, we can ask\nourselves whether social media should be more regulated and whether there\nshould be more limits to what people are allowed to share with others. Unlike\nnewspapers, social media are not very strict. They may have some rules but they\nare not always respected. Moreover, it is very easy to post something that is out\nof bounds. It might be deleted shortly after, but there is still time for\nothers to see it. Ask anyone on social media, and you will realize that more\npeople than we think have already seen content that they wish they had never\nseen but they just could not avoid. Whether the post is an extremist or racist\nopinion or a shocking picture of a dead animal, most people do not want to see\nit. What are these people even looking for \u2013 attention? Or money? I just wonder\nhow people can forget all morality for one moment, just so they can briefly enjoy\nwhat they were looking for. The answer might be that they actually never had morality;\nsocial media is just a place where everyone can realize that. On the other hand,\nmaybe they have a different view of morality and ethics. It might feel normal\nthem and not pose any ethical questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We may ask:\nwho or what decides what is ethical and what is not? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image: OpenLearn\/The Open University<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Compared to reality, social media are quite complex when it comes to defining\nlimits and knowing what is ethical. I love this quote from Albert Einstein: \u201cI\nfear a day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will\nhave a generation of idiots.\u201d Technology, as well as social media, are now part\nof most people\u2019s lives and people sometimes forget that it is not the reality.\nWhen I see how much people edit their pictures or even spread fake news, I\nwonder why people do not consider ethical principles as they do in real life.\nHiding behind the computer is so much easier than confronting people. I often\nfeel like people allow themselves too much freedom on social media. Maybe they\nshould think more than twice about what the world is about to see because it\nmight have a bigger impact than they think. Related to the many shootings\nhappening in the U.S., it surprises me how often it is possible to find the perpetrators\u2019\nracist opinions on their Facebook page and come across pictures of the\nshootings. When people already have to deal with a traumatizing event, they do\nnot necessarily want to be reminded of it on social media by a picture of a\ndead body, for instance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is definitely time for us all to start being\ncareful with what we post and reconsider what we have been sharing until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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