I continue to be interested in your protocols on social networking sites like Facebook. Some have expressed grave concern about their ramifications. For example, one anonymous Brigada participant wrote this past week to share the procedure that his agency has embraced:
“Because of the responsibility we have as a ministry, all volunteers, visitors or workers who wish to be part of the project. will now be required to refrain from using social networking websites to make contact with the young people or children we work with via the internet or email. Any contact will be through us.”
To others, this might seem “over the top.” What’s your opinion? For background, please see our earlier discussion on this at:
https://brigada.org/guidelines-for-social-networking
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I feel with the new security rules for Facebook,
http://news.ebrandz.com/miscellaneous/2009/3037-facebook-faces-privacy-backlash-with-ftc-complaint-.html
they should NOT be used for anyone in a restricted access nation. We also ask our DTS students going on outreach to sanitize their email and only used secured computers that front-liners have okayed. We yarp for people, (pray backwards) and “talk to Dad”. As of 2008, the figure I have heard for China is 200,000 full-time monitors for the Internet. If you send it, they will read it. As for computers in Cafe’s, many have been found to contain software to record any keystrokes and send to a monitoring facility. Luckily, I type so poorly, most of what I send is garbled anyway. Praise God for speel chekers.
Hi Mike. Sounds like good protocol to me!