Do you include professional and personal boundaries?

Social media has the benefit of everyone has a chance to share his/her feeling, it increases the speed at we receive and share information. However, this characteristic might also cause divergence because of viewers’ background, culture, countries, age, even gender. We are all unique individuals, the uniqueness made us have different points of view and attitude towards the same problem. Just like Harrison Mooney in the interview, he has to keep in mind every time that he is a black person, no matter how good he is, people will deny his talent because of skin colour, the racism also happens online. A positive PLN must get rid of similar problems, it should be free for all participators to feel free to discuss and express opinions, especially when addressing differences between us. Just like the protest happens earlier about “Black matters”. Everyone should have equal rights to express their ideas and they all should be respected. PLN isn’t a place to vent your anger and discrimination.

In order to curate a health PLN, all the users in the network have the responsibility to be true about what they want to express. They need to have the ability to distinguish what is right and what could be a Bias before commenting and sharing. Also, we should diversify our networks, bring more people to the table. If the PLN has people all over the world and has a vast diversity in user groups, it wouldn’t be an issue to discover Bias opinions.

Since we are all unique individuals, who we are and what role we play in the PLN is important. If you have a specific identity, other users have a better to locate you and build contact with you. For example, if you are a math teacher, your personal learning environment should include information like how you solve difficult problems or blogs related to math. If other users in the PLN need help with math, they can easily find you and build connections, narrowing yourself down to a specific area. Other users who are good at math might also want to build connections with you and share high-quality opinions.

While we work with various social media platforms, we need to consider the boundaries of entertainment use or professional use. For example, you should provide specific details about yourself and your careers on the Linkin platform, because those details let the viewer of your profile know your working abilities and career experiences, some of them could be your future employer. However, you wouldn’t want to provide lots of details about yourself on Reddit, because the platform doesn’t provide too much professional usage. Users need to understand each platform’s features. Loading information to those platforms which can bring you positive influence.

 

Reference

Mooney, H. (2020) Reporting in a Connected Culture, EDCI 338 – Course YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/elKNQpz0RrI

Social Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility Meikle, G – Chapter 4https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315884172/chapters/10.4324/9781315884172-10