A future reference built from past choices.
Storified by makiomilano · Thu, Mar 20 2014 22:54:08
I found an interesting topic to discuss and is about teaching secondary school and high school students how to behave in social networks or having a clean digital profile. I´ve discover how they interact in social networks and most of the time they act like in real life, they expose lots of data about their emotions and thoughts but forgetting those are recorded for their doom or success in the long run.
Few weeks ago I teached to a group of teenagers how a’ bad decision’ can destroy or damage their digital profile for a long time and not easy to recover, I showed them few good examples about it; my online tool was Storify, why?, because I could come with fancy graphics but they wanted facts, interactive media, so that´s what they got. I posted my storify on their facebook page and using a hashtag.
Teenagers are far far far ahead in the way they communicate compare to adults with social media lives but kids lack social media etiquette. I mentioned them good tips about dealing with personal problems, differences with other people, what to post and what NOT, by any mean, post on social networks.
I gave them three essential tips: 1) Listening: digg the web for cool content, follow great twitter profiles like artists, brands, and use Hootsuite to filter and find what they want. 2) Interact: reply to comments including their message, make new friends and good quality followers that leads to have an influential voice. ‘Like’ a picture is not interacting. 3) Share: Create a blog and find online tools to spread the word.
Those essential tips will make an impact in their future if Klout or Kred are around.
