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tal charossa (negativespace) wrote in dunhavenic,
@ 2020-01-24 12:55:00

Entry tags:

c: angelina phillips, c: chase brent, c: elias salazar, c: esther shaw, c: michael beaumont, c: thomas corvin, r: daniel jarrett, r: preston salazar, r: theo salazar

January term ends on the 29th. In theory, this should be no surprise if you've been studying for your final.

Someone a great deal cooler than me informed me that a lot of you use Instagram to communicate. As someone with a perpetual allergy to social media of any kind (read: snobbery), what will having an Instagram account provide me that having a social media "journal" on this platform can't?

More specifically, I left Facebook due to my inability to keep myself from making acquaintances' great aunts cry over their terrible political opinions. Am I going to have to fight any of you on Instagram? Am I going to be approached by someone working from home who thinks I'd be a great fit for the bottom segment of a pyramid scheme? How are the privacy settings? For those of you still in school: is Instagram sufficiently uncool enough that none of my students are on it?

Thank you for any information you can provide.

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bringyouin
2020-01-24 07:14 pm UTC (link)

Instagram is owned by Facebook, so it's not like you're gaining anything in that regard (security, peace of mind, etc). I guess the benefit is more pictures rather than blocks of text. I don't use either, though, so don't use me as a guideline.

Then again, I've got professional reasons for staying off of global social media and the only reason I can use this is that it's localized.

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	negativespace 2020-01-24 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	I've read too many horror stories of people who slip up and get fired due to a picture someone tagged. Not that I lead a terribly exciting or controversial life, but it's something for any educator to consider. Although reading between the lines, I'm guessing your professional reasons have nothing to do with education. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

bringyouin
2020-01-24 07:22 pm UTC (link)

A lot of companies don't want you to represent them in a way that may give them bad press. Even if you don't think you're representing them at all. If your profile doesn't say where you work, you use a fake name, and never post anything that can come back to you or your job, you're probably fine.

Probably.

I've got certain levels of clearance that I have to abide by additional rules for, unfortunately.

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	negativespace 2020-01-24 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	There you go again, being vague. Does that typically work to arouse or quell invasive questions? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	bringyouin 2020-01-24 07:49 pm UTC (link)
	It doesn't work any better than "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you." With my line of work, even though I consider myself partially retired, means it's a bunch of stuff I can't talk about, but I can tell you that I can't talk about it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	onthemove 2020-01-24 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	I'm on every social media platform - mostly out of necessity. Security aside (it's Eli's job to worry about that and even then ... well), having a platform I can use to speak directly to the people we help and impact is both an amazing thing that requires a very thick skin. And just assume 90% of your students are on there. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	negativespace 2020-01-24 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	Every social media platform? Actual chills. I think I'll take a page out of Chase's book and post nothing but photographs of my cat.I suppose I'll need a cat for that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	onthemove 2020-01-24 07:43 pm UTC (link)
	I'm the hands-on CEO. The shelter can help you there. I post a lot of feminist memes and promoting water conservation charities. On twitter, we mostly spend all of the time roasting Elon Musk. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)