Social media can be helpful in creating opportunities and creating new connection with people. Which can benefit people’s careers in the long-term period. Moreover, it can also help people to maintains the old connections. For example, our guest speaker Jody Vance got the job she wants in Sport television show by creating new connection with people. Social media is a double edge sword, and it can cause some side effect. For example, some negatively comments may give you more pressures, and social media may complicate things by making people’s personal information become public. At meantime, social media can exposes people’s strength as well due to Jody Vance’s word. More exposure brings more opportunity as well, and people need to have a clear mind to balancing those benefits and cost in order to get best result. Building a PLN is a good way to increase exposure to the public, and it is a very good chance to show your abilities and advantages to someone who can appreciate you. For the employer social media policy, I totally agree with Jody Vance’s opinion about don’t across the line we already set. Again, people have to balance benefits and costs before making any decisions in order to hit the best result. There are many unfriendly voices like negative replies on social media as well, Sometimes, we should be open to criticism and good suggestions, and ignore the bad stuff. I agree with the Jody Vance’s point that building a good reputation is very hard, but it can be suddenly destroyed. Over all I think we should speak and act cautiously on social media (PLN) to minimizing the risk in sharing improper information.

Reference

Vance, J. (February 28, 2021). EDCI 338 – JODY VANCE. YouTube. https://youtu.be/dgZOJgJkdyI

Hirst, M. (2018). Social Journalism and the Gig Economy. Navigating Social Journalism: A Handbook for Media Literacy and Citizen Journalism. Ch. 6.(pp. 142-143). New York, NY: Routledge.