Krost Symposium

A couple of weeks ago I listened to Daniel Solove's Keynote speech called, “Social Media, Gossip, and Privacy: A New Frontier” for Texas Lutheran University's Krost Symposium and it was held in Jackson Auditorium on November 3rd, 2011.  Solove explains how he started blogging in May 2005 and that's how it all started,  that's where his ideas about social media and technology developed.  During Solove's presentation I strongly agreed with his point of view on the process of employers hiring employees since this process could affect my generation in a bad way.  He stated that according to a study by Microsoft, 70% of employers rejected employees because of online information (“ Social Media, Gossip, and Privacy: A New Frontier”).   So he thinks that employers are not fair because it is wrong and these employers should warn employees about their hiring process (“Social Media, Gossip, and Privacy: A New Frontier”).   I could relate to this main point in his speech because I feel like it could happen to me and the rest of my generation due to the fact that we are “generation google” like how he explains it.   So I agree when he discusses that employers are not fair because the information on the internet should not affect if I get hired or not but at the same time this brings us to Solove's big advice is to be careful of what we expose online or what other people put about you (“Social Media, Gossip, and Privacy: A New Frontier”).   The way employers hire employees is one of the many impacts, in his speech, due to information on the internet that affects people's lives and opportunities (“Social Media, Gossip, and Privacy: A New Frontier”).

Solove, Daniel. “Social Media, Gossip, and Privacy: A New Frontier” Texas Lutheran University.

             Jackson Auditorium, 1000 West Court St. 4 November 2011. Keynote Address.