1. What steps would you take to determine whether Elefant's information is accurate?
Well just by reading it you can tell that she has a survey that was conducted which helps with an explanation. If you know facebook then you should know how it runs. There are also comments posted by people who included their thoughts on it and they are all agreeing with her.
2. How could you determine whether Elefant is respected in her field?
By reading the comments. A lot of good things about her and everyone agrees with her speech.
3. Is Elefant's blog written for an audience that is knowledgeable about her subjects? How can you tell?
Yes. I can tell by the way it is written. She explains her theory as if she is speaking to a crowd of people who have profiles on facebook. She expects that her readers have a profile or else they wouldn't be reading her blog. If they don't then it is quite easy to find out more about facebook just by going on there and looking up a random person.
4. Do you think this blog post is a suitable research source? Why or why not?
Depending on what exactly you are researching, yes. It has fact as well as opinions and I believe when you research something that pertains to someones life, (Getting a job in this case), then you need the opinion of people who have or are going through the experience in order to get a better understanding of what is going on. You can't determine everything in life by research only, you need the opinion of the victims whether it's good or bad.
5. What insights about this blog post do the comments that accompany it give you?
That the author is well liked and respected. A lot of people seem to agree with her ad thank her for posting it. They also add their opinion which help in the researching part.
Even though Elefant’s blog is very informative and open to the possibilities in which an employer may, or may not exercise by way of seeking out an applicant’s profile on “Face Book. I have always felt that it was kind of kool the way I could check out my son’s face book page just by being his friend. As a concerned mother, I get to see who his friends are and get to know a little about them too; I can pick up on small or large concerns that he may have and are wary about talking to an adult about. Even though your face book page is yours to create however you want, it has and will always be a good habit to practice being tasteful and respectful when opening up your personal thoughts and lives to others. You can never know, who know who, and who will be checking out your page.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter, who is 15, wanted to have a Facebook page, so I let her and i was her friend so I could do the same thing that you were doing Sarah. I would check out her friends pages to see their profiles to learn about her friends because it was a struggle to get her to share information with me. I was disappointed by the friends she had on Facebook. It was amazing how much these kids would divulge on a social networking website. I had to take her Facebook page away from her when one of her friends posted an inappropriate message on her page. Users have the ability to filter who sees what by forming groups on Facebook, so unless parents have the username and password the kids could still keep there naughtiness a secret.
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