So for my third article in journalism 200, I interviewed Dr. Cliff Lampe about social media. Unfortunately, the questions weren't flowing very smoothly that day, but I still got some good information out of him.
He is clearly in favor of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and LinkedIn (I still need to make one of those), but he also gave some costs to this new technology.
For instance, he said, “some of the legitimate cautions about social media include all the things people talk about like privacy implications of posting messages on Facebook.”
Lampe said a concern of his was that there are always effects that we are unaware of until later on with any new technology. Specifically, he said he doesn’t know the “kind of the implications of keeping long lists of contacts and friends over long periods of time. In our previous history, we would let our networks decay, like when we left high school - that network would decay, and we would be embedded in a new network.”
He also mentioned people doing “typical, stupid human things,” such as posting too much or the wrong things on a Web site.
It was a relief, even though I avoid putting stupid stuff on the internet, to hear that he think things like these almost never come back to bite people later on in life.
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