Feb 7, 2009
Social Policing
Sometime back I came across this article in Economist. Here is a paragraph from it.
“On October 31st Virgin fired 13 of its cabin crew who had posted derogatory comments about its safety standards and some of its passengers on a Facebook forum. Among other things, crew members joked that some Virgin planes were infested with cockroaches and described customers as “chavs”, a disparaging British term for people with flashy bad taste. On November 3rd BA began investigating the behaviour of several employees who had described some passengers as “smelly” and “annoying” in Facebook postings.”
While talking to a friend, I was telling him a possibility of Social Policing. With several hundred online social networks around, with several million working professionals, there is a high chance of one “uttering” something not meant to be. The concept goes like this.
It is similar to the way bank accounts/ trading accounts are monitored if one is working at a financial firm. So will the web accounts should also be monitored. Thus when an employee joins a company, he puts in all his details like address, social security details etc. He will also share his user name for Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc.
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