Managing Your Online Reputation

Managing Online Reputation Group: Sarah Fahy, Shannon Fitzgearld, Katie Fitzgearld, Jennifer Flannery, Olga Rhatigan, Ellie Glynn & Ailbhe Greally with IT Teachers Mr. Fogarty and Miss Waterstone and Joanne Sweeney Burke & Jillian O’Toole of Digital Training Institute. Photo by John McDonnell.

Facebook & Your Online Reputation

● When you share something on you can click the tool and select who you want to share it with eg. public or friends. However the tool remembers the audience you shared it with last time and uses the same audience when you share something again unless you change it. For example if you chose to share it publicly your next posts will also be public unless you change it.

● Anyone on facebook can send you a friend request but you can change it in your privacy settings by setting it to only your friends friends can send you a friend request, this makes it safer.

● People who are not logged into facebook can still see things that you share ,profile picture ,and also public information such as name,cover photo ,gender and networks.

• You can view posts that friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline, you just click timeline review on the left hand side of your activity log & control posts that are allowed on your timeline, Posts you're tagged in still appear in search, news feeds and other places on facebook .

Twitter & Your Online Reputation

Who can see my tweets?When you sign up for twitter ,you have the option to keep your tweets public

in the default account settings or to protect your tweets.Public tweets are visible to anyone ,whether or not they have a twitter

account .Accounts with protected tweets require manual approval of each and every

person who may view that accounts tweets .Protected tweets may only be visible to your approved twitter followers.

What happens when I protect my tweets?

• When you protect your tweets, you can control who sees your updates .

• People will have to request to follow you and each follow request will need approval.

• Your tweets will only be visible to users you have approved.

• Other users will not be able to retweet your tweets.

• Protected tweets will not be able to appear in google search ,protected tweets will only be searchable on twitter by the account holder and approved followers.

Online Behaviour

As a group, we made up two random, yet nearly identical facebook accounts. One was called Jessie P Blake and the other was called Jessie D Blake

The accounts added the same people (TY salerno students) and had the same profile picture. Despite these similarities the accounts were very different.

Jessie P & Jessie D

We used the ‘Jessie P Blake’ account to demonstrate bad social online activity and ‘Jessie D Blake’ to demonstrate good social online activity.

We used the ‘Jessie P Blake’ account to demonstrate bad social online

activity. Jessie P put up a status including where she would be on Friday and what time she would be there at. This is an example of bad online behaviour because now, anybody can know her location and that is a dangerous situation to put yourself in.

Jessie D did say she was looking forward to going to ‘Potterfest’ but didn’t say what time she would be there or where exactly she would be. This is a safer way to put information up on facebook. As it does not show what time she will be there at and the location it’s taking place on.

Online Reputation

• You would be very surprised at the things you can find when you google yourself.

• Two members of our group googled themselves and wrote down what they found. Luckily for them what they found when they googled themselves was positive. They both found a lot about sporting events that they had taken part in that dated back to 2010 from articles people had posted to online websites and they also found pictures that were in past newspapers.

• But being online is not all fun and games,as anything you post is never lost or fully deleted.We discovered this when googling ourselves as pictures we had posted on instagram appeared on the list of images. By posting pictures that are “inappropriate”future jobs and your online reputation can be affected.

• On the next slide we have posted an example of what comes up when you google yourself. We have chosen Daniel O'Donnell as our example. As you will see, pictures come up as well as information about yourself when you google yourself.

What Googling Yourself Looks Like

Nominations

As a part of our project, We decided to look into the “Nominations”that have been seen all over facebook since the beginning of this year.

The first nomination that went viral was the dangerous “Neck nomination”.This was when someone had to “down” a pint of alcohol as fast as they could and afterwards nominate friends to do the same and post the same video on facebook. Matters got out of hand very quickly. People started to put other liquids and things into their drink, even something as terrible as a live fish.

Many people put themselves in dangerous or silly situations to video themselves doing their “Neck nomination” resulting in some deaths.

Having this on your facebook timeline is very bad for your online reputation because you are promoting a bad image of yourself especially for future employers.

Nominations

However, there were some other types of ‘Nominations’ that went viral that were for good causes.

The trend of the ‘no make-up selfie’ which saw people share a selfie of themselves with no make-up and donate 4euro to the Irish Cancer Society went viral recently.

This Nomination was for a good cause and unlike the ‘Nek-Nomination’ should not damage your online reputation.

Miley Cyrus – Online Reputation

Miley Cyrus is known to be quite controversial, especially on Social Media.

Most recently a lot of her tweets have been about her ‘Bangerz Tour’ but last October the famous singer caused quite a stir on Twitter when she mocked Sinead O’Connors mental health.

When Miley Cyrus told Rolling Stone that Sinead O’Connor inspired her ‘Wrecking Ball’ video Sinead responded by writing an open letter to miley on her blog. Miley responded by re-posting Sinead’s suicidal tweets from two years before and made a joke about Amanda Bynes.

Miley’s behaviour is an example of how your behaviour online can damage your reputation.