Network Management In Organizations

Question: Discuss about the Network Management In Organizations. Answer: Facebook This can be best described as a form of social media that is used to send and receive information from different people across the globe at any given time you want to use it. Several people have been using this form of media as it is relatively cheap and also it connects people from different countries and backgrounds bringing them together. Some individuals have always viewed Facebook as the best way in which many people would be able to communicate to each other easily without any barrier mainly using the Facebook platform(Acquisti, Gross, Stutzman, 2011). The invention came under the influence of certain situation like the need for communication and sharing of ideas around the globe that made it to come to development. These situations across the globe have made it possible for the way of communication to develop at large and improve on the way people are using it. However these situations that led to the development of Facebook have increased or led to some arguments among many people(Boyd, 2008). Many people have come up with different arguments concerning the Facebook platform. Decision of Adding Frances flag on Facebook There was a decision that was made by the managers of Facebook to add the France flag on Facebook. The issue of flags came upon the attacks that had been made in some countries including France and Lebanon. The terrorists made attacks on these countries leading the death and mass destruction in these countries. The countries that were largely affected were Lebanon and France; Paris attack(Ellison, Steinfield, Lampe, 2011). There had been an attack on Lebanon before an attack was carried out in Paris. These attacks affected many victims who were later on to be encouraged by placing their flag on Facebook. However, it was decided that Frances flag was the one that was to be added on Facebook. I do not support the decision of applying France flag on Facebook as a better decision by the management of Facebook. I have some reasons as to why it was not a wise decision as to why it was necessary to apply France flag. The reasons include; It was not fare to Lebanon nation; Lebanon had been attacked early before France attack. It was necessary to put Lebanon flag first than France to be able to make the victims in Lebanon to feel part of the activity. It was for self-gain; The Facebook management was only considering France and did not think of the other nations that had also experienced the same attack making it to give France more advantage than other countries. I therefore do not support the decision of the application of the France flag on Facebook. Biased Behavior After seeing that only Frances flag was the one applied on Facebook, we have to determine whether the decision that had been made for this application is a biased decision. I think it was a biased decision for only applying the France flag and not Lebanon flag. Lebanon nation had been attacked before then later on France was attacked(Park, Kee, Valenzuela, 2009). This makes the two nations to be equal and should be given the same opportunities but Lebanon is not treated the same as France. This made the Lebanon nation not feel any involvement in Facebook, as they were considered inferior than France. A good example is of the individual who identified this act as a form of self- involvement masquerading as empathy for others. This individual implies that it was not fare to only apply the France flag and not including Lebanon flag on Facebook. Facebook Safety Check This is an added feature that was included by the Facebook aiming at assisting several victims that had been affected(Lampe, Ellison, Steinfield, 2008). Facebook developed a new feature that they wanted to engage the victims that had been affected by terrorists bombing the France nation. This feature was added to the people of France after the application of their flag on Facebook. I think the application of safety check that had been put in place by Facebook was a good move. This was necessary because the company had started to develop and they ought to give the best results to their users. By coming up with this idea, they brought in many people together who were feeling part and parcel of the activity especially after the bombings that had taken place. Privacy with Facebook I think the use of Facebook has invaded our privacy as the users. It has greatly affected the way of our lives more so our private lives. It has affected the privacy in that an individual cannot have something private himself or herself(Lillqvist Louhiala-Salminen, 2014). The many other individuals who are also using Facebook can see anything that you are carrying out on Facebook. This makes us not to have privacy for our own information thus Facebook has invaded our private lives. It has also invaded our privacy in that any activity we are carrying is shared with many other users. Facebook has also allowed some security firms and organizations to collect some certain information without the consent. The company has not also put in strong systems to prevent the hacking of its users accounts. References Boyd, D. (2008). Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 14(1), 13-20. Acquisti, A., Gross, R., Stutzman, F. (2011). Faces of Facebook: Privacy in the age of augmented reality. Lampe, C., Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C. (2008, November). Changes in use and perception of Facebook. In Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work (pp. 721-730). ACM. Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C., Lampe, C. (2011). Connection strategies: Social capital implications of Facebook-enabled communication practices. New media society, 1461444810385389. Lillqvist, E., Louhiala-Salminen, L. 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