Rachel, a 16-year old work placement student at DMH Stallard has outlined the key web sites she visits. Not surprisingly, social media features highly – appropriate as today is global social media day - at least according to Mashable! With future employees used to accessing these sites on a fairly regular basis, companies should ensure they have a policy covering staff use of social media. For more information on what this should include, see Social media + Generation Z = lost time in workplace?
“The social networking sites which I use the most are MSN and Facebook. I use Facebook on my phone and via the web to contact my friends and family on a daily basis - it enables me to inform people of what’s going on in my life, as well as keeping up with what’s going on in theirs. Facebook is my calendar for big events and upcoming parties, a free way to chat to my family and an essential line of communication between my friends. Facebook is basically the defibrillator with which I can restart my social life if it ever has the chance to slow down. Over a day, I probably access my facebook profile around 5 -10 times, spending from a few minutes to half an hour on it.
I use MSN when I know I have a bit more free time - I know that when I log on I will get to spend some quality virtual face time my friends. I usually spend time chatting to one of my closest and oldest friends H or my Dad, who I speak to about twice a week. We chat to each other like you would do on the phone with the use of Bluetooth headsets and we see each other via our webcams. Both live quite far away from me at the moment, so it’s important to us that we speak to each other this way to keep up to date.
Another site which I use quite regularly is Tagged. I go on this website about once a week on average and use it as a way to contact people from overseas. We discuss the differences between our countries and our cultures and I can honestly say that I learn something new in every message that I receive from each of my ‘E-pals’. It is quite difficult to find social networking sites now that allow you to chat to anyone who isn’t a known contact. This can make finding an E-pal unnecessarily difficult and this is the only site I have found which really gives you that opportunity.
I eventually had to close my Twitter account because it has been hacked several times, it was no longer worth the social enjoyment as I had to keep apologising to everyone I knew on there for all of the scam messages they were sent via my account. Similarly I know people who have stopped using Facebook, due to constantly being hacked regardless of the fact that they set up numerous new accounts and reporting the incidents to Facebook. Despite these outages, my friends and I aren’t put off by using social networking at all – I think its something that I will use increasingly. When I begin my graduate career, I would be wary of using these profiles within my professional role – I think its important for the two should be kept separate.”
“The social networking sites which I use the most are MSN and Facebook. I use Facebook on my phone and via the web to contact my friends and family on a daily basis - it enables me to inform people of what’s going on in my life, as well as keeping up with what’s going on in theirs. Facebook is my calendar for big events and upcoming parties, a free way to chat to my family and an essential line of communication between my friends. Facebook is basically the defibrillator with which I can restart my social life if it ever has the chance to slow down. Over a day, I probably access my facebook profile around 5 -10 times, spending from a few minutes to half an hour on it.
I use MSN when I know I have a bit more free time - I know that when I log on I will get to spend some quality virtual face time my friends. I usually spend time chatting to one of my closest and oldest friends H or my Dad, who I speak to about twice a week. We chat to each other like you would do on the phone with the use of Bluetooth headsets and we see each other via our webcams. Both live quite far away from me at the moment, so it’s important to us that we speak to each other this way to keep up to date.
Another site which I use quite regularly is Tagged. I go on this website about once a week on average and use it as a way to contact people from overseas. We discuss the differences between our countries and our cultures and I can honestly say that I learn something new in every message that I receive from each of my ‘E-pals’. It is quite difficult to find social networking sites now that allow you to chat to anyone who isn’t a known contact. This can make finding an E-pal unnecessarily difficult and this is the only site I have found which really gives you that opportunity.
I eventually had to close my Twitter account because it has been hacked several times, it was no longer worth the social enjoyment as I had to keep apologising to everyone I knew on there for all of the scam messages they were sent via my account. Similarly I know people who have stopped using Facebook, due to constantly being hacked regardless of the fact that they set up numerous new accounts and reporting the incidents to Facebook. Despite these outages, my friends and I aren’t put off by using social networking at all – I think its something that I will use increasingly. When I begin my graduate career, I would be wary of using these profiles within my professional role – I think its important for the two should be kept separate.”
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