CIU111 Week six Blog by Richard Tilbury

Social Media and Your Career

Summary

This weeks lecture outlines what it means to use social media to your advantage by creating your social profile that can connect with your audience. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube etc, can all be used to create a network for your audience.

One of the things that is crucial to having an online audience, is that you must act professionally online, as you can lose an audience by being rude or antisocial.

Relative Discussion

This relates to me as in the creative industry, if you are not the most professional person you can be while interacting with an audience, it can have repercussions on your work. If you’re in the games industry, the audience can band together and say that your game is terrible even if it’s not, just because of the way you acted online.

Although there are simple reasons for hating on people who get famous fast, such as the case with Markus “Notch” Persson who gets hated on simply for making a product everyone liked. The hate isn’t on product itself, but on the fact that Markus get famous so fast from out of nowhere, and people believe that he doesn't deserve it.

“Persson talks about twiddling his thumbs at home in Sweden, and how staff from Mojang “all hate me now.” One Mojang employee responds that he only hated Persson during the initial shock of him leaving, but Persson rejects that, saying “nobody reached out and said it was just initial shock. So fuck all of you. Fuck you so hard.” ” (Martin Bryant, 2015).

Reflection Summary

The main point to be taken away is don’t be an asshole online. Everything that gets put online, stays online. Acting rude to people on the internet can cause it to impact on your work.

References:

Martin Bryant. (2015) Minecraft creator Notch shares the darker side of life after a big exit. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/29/minecraft-creator-notch-shares-the-darker-side-of-life-after-a-big-exit/#gref