Hello everyone,
The topic for this week is about online social networks, so once again I’ve started a search around this topic of social media. As many of you guys already know, there are more than 300 social media networks out there for everyone to reach, connect and entertain them self. Most of you guys share, tweet, like and post things you have bought, done or are currently doing. And you might think that only your friends who you have allowed to see your page etc is watching and following you. But you are definitely wrong.
In a recent court case, Aegon a Dutch insurance who through hyves and google had discover that an insured client was not a vegetable, but was able to climb the alpe d’huez. For those who don’t know alpe d’huez is a ski resort at 1,860 to 3,330 meters. It is a mountain pasture in the central French Alps, in the commune of huez. The result of this was that Aegon was able to recover their payments. So my question is, are YOU watching the world or is the world watching you??
Another case was of a road worker who was paving a road, and than suddenly the bucket of a crane hit him and since then was declared “incapacitated”. And the insurance agreed an amount based on a minimum insurance of € 110.000, due to the road worker lost income.
Aegon again started a research conducted through hyves and google and the research has shown that the road worker was from 2005 till 2009 annually participating in the amstel Curacao race (a cycling race of 80 km), had skied in Austria and also had climbed alpe d’huez. Result of this was that a court demanded the insured road worker to re-pay hefty sums to the insurer aegon. So, placed online data have thus ensured that the insurer, its claim for repayment of advances made was been able to be substantiated.
My conclusion is that we all must be careful of what we post, tweet or comment, especially when we are doing things we are not suppose to. LOL. Be aware and careful because not only you are watching the world but the world is also watching you!
Take care
Stephanie
