Yes, times have changed and as technology progresses at incredible speed the laws will change with it. Just this morning I read that Birmingham university is to offer a master’s degree teaching students about social networking sites. What on earth are they thinking?
Soon it will be Scotland Yard teaching their force how to twitter effectively and follow criminals online.
But you’ve got to laugh at it I guess.

regards

Guy

Great to see anarchy alive and kicking here on your pages. Gad when I was a lad we all thought the world would change. No longer would sleaze and injustice prevail, at least in the West for we were ‘The Love Generation’.

Unfortunately it’s not so. I hear that employees at Scotland Yard don’t use Oyster cards on the London Underground because they know their movements can be tracked.

It’s obvious that Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and such places are easy for government agencies to police. I mean if you were the police charged with keeping law and order wouldn’t you target those sites?

Actually I wouldn’t be concerned about this were it not that many laws enacted in Westen cities are just plain ‘daft’.

There are, for example, restrictions on photography in lands where every mobile phone is a camera. How stupid is that?

If we could be sure our governments wouldn’t treat anyone exploring cyberspace as a potential terrorist, or paedophile I would feel secure about our security forces monitoring the net.

As for the ‘Love Generation’ it died with Lennon I fear

Stephen

Thanks for your comment.

I have heard of cases that employees have been threatened due to working on their social media sites rather then working on their jobs during their working hours.
Imagine being caught by your boss while tweeting to your followers on how much you hate your job.
I guess that’s why we’re working our blogs, to escape the rat race and shove a few up yours tweets to our boss when the time comes

regards

Guy

Well, I can share about how companies check you out!

Le me say that if you’re an employee, you still have to be careful bout what you put on social networking sites like Facebook, Friendster and such because your current and future job might ride on it.

Note! If you plan on playing hooky, don’t put your Facebook status as “Pretending to be sick so I can play Need For Speed Underground” or something equally idiotic.

Regards,

Erwin Chua
Internet Marketing Advice With Erwin Chua