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| By Subhojit Goswami |
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 (15:39:02) |
| Tags : Twitter, Social Networking, Social Media |
Are you game for social media experiment? |
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| New Delhi, June 22: Social Networking, as a phenomenon, has covered enough grounds recently to make its entry as an accepted mode of communicating, seeking and finding. Be it Twitter or Facebook, just a single post on any issue can make the entire community stand on its feet and engage in random action that may or may not lead to a definite conclusion.
There had been instances in the past where these high-utility sites have proved their worth when it comes to give direction to a person lost in the middle of the road or providing information to the users facing urgencies. Just a single SOS tweet on Twitter has often yielded a positive result with the word spreading like wildfire settling down only after the requirements are met and solutions have been traced.
But that does not leave any scope for giving a clean chit to the symbiotic mechanism that these social networking tools follow. In a recent incident it has come to surface that using Twitter like tool for spreading the word and seeking information may not always turn out to be a prudent idea as the users may inadvertently invade someone's privacy in this public forum.
The incident, which apparently seemed to be a man's quest for a girl, brought several factors at loggerheads. In a bid to do a 'social experiment' a Mumbai-based guy tweeted little information about the girl on board the same flight and asked others' help him in tracking her. His tweet read, "Ok I'm looking for someone on Air Asia KL-Mumbai flight D7-2516 on June 20th, seat no 8-I."
Although there was no instant gratification and nothing finally materialized out of his effort, yet it led to two factions on the Twitter community who are divided in their opinions. With media covering this incident and tagging it as an invasion of privacy, a heated response generated from the users concerned about this issue. Some considered the story as "a sorry excuse for journalism". One of the tweeples tweet, "If a simple tweet about some hot girl on a flight can be invasion of privacy, then no one on Planet Earth would ever get lost".
On the flip side, there are sympathizers who have felt this highly irresponsible on the man's part to have tweeted the details of the girl, which could have led to an embarrassment for her. The person in concern made it clear that "I'm not stalking this person or obsessed with her or anything, this is just a social experiment that's all." His 'social media experiment' has, however, been the fodder for entertainment on Twitter with some of them even assuring him of their full support. |
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