New Vietnam Law Bans News Stories From Social Media Sites

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Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites have become hugely popular over the last few years in the heavily censored Communist country.

Internet activists and human rights groups are slamming a new decree in Vietnam that attempts to ban social media users and bloggers from posting news stories online.

Decree 72 issued by the government said blogs should only be used “to provide and exchange personal information.”

On one hand, some government officials have attempted to justify the law, saying it will help web users “find correct and clean information on the Internet.”

On other hand, the decree’s provisions are overly broad and will be used to prosecute critics of Vietnam’s communist government. It includes warnings of speech that is anti-Vietnam or that damages national unity.

Obviously, Vietnamese have increasingly taken to social media to get an unfiltered view of current events in a country where all private media are banned. Government will not easily to ban it by decree simply.

It cannot deny that migration away from traditional media has posed a challenge to a government that has long been able to monitor and regulate communications.

However, from my point of view, “It’s up to one’s own decision and judgment to decide what information is good or bad. We don’t need the government to be a coach telling us what to think and what to do for ourselves,” . So this decree issued by government is not practical in the long run. Citizens will do against it. The government should take consideration about all other factors into account to make balance between social networking sites and their worries.

 

 

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Homework assignment: Who Is SNS Mr. Right to Advertising- Renren VS. Weibo

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In my report, it is aiming to analyze both of them to figure out which one is better performing in Business function- especially for advertising.

“The Renren Network, formerly known as Xiaonei Network, is a Chinese social networking site with an interface similar to that of Facebook. It is popular among college students in China.”( China Online Marketing, 2010) Friendships exist when both part are confirmed.

Sina Weibo is a Chinese micro-blogging website, which is one of the most popular sites in China. Put into an easy way, it is kind of a hybrid of Twitter and Facebook. Sina Corporation launched it in August 2009 (Wikipedia, 2013). The relationship between followers and followees is unidirectional; one can “ follow” other individuals and read their “ weibo” (as same as “tweets”) without being following back.

From my own opinion, Renren is more about engagement, through Weibo is about enlargement. It cannot simply say that either of the two is more useful for company to market its brand. However, company should choose different SNS channels according to different product phrases and marketing situation. If company begins to launch a new product/service into the market, it is better to use Weibo first to quickly get exposure and arise as much attention as possible. Later in the phrases of product- maturity, company should mainly focus on using Renren to maintain a sustainable relationship between company and users to create a friendly brand image. And if the company is the later entrant into the marketing with similar products with competitors , it can probably use Weibo instead of Renren. Because Weibo can quickly get attention of customers with less cost by comparing with Renren, then company can immediately get profit and advantageous position in marketing. However, if the company already exits in marketing with constant profits, company needs to pay more attention to build a long-term relationship by using Renren to interact with customers in order to be sustainable in the long time.

 

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Social Media Security Tips

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The popularity of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn has increased at astonishing level. These platforms can be used for professional network and job searches. And these are being used by enterprises to engage with customers, build their brands. So the security and safety or other issues are kept a close watch on.

Just as someone wrote a security issue related with LinkedIn, so here I am going to introduce some tips to protect your personal date from abusing or any illegal using.

  • Ignore any links embedded in email messages that appear to come from a social networking service. Instead, connect to the site directly by typing its URL or using a bookmark. This will help avoid phishing-style incidents.
  • Don’t include in your social networking communications potentially sensitive information about other people. For instance, some parents don’t like revealing the names of their kids online. Understand and respect your friends’ privacy preferences.
  • Be skeptical of job postings on social networking sites until you confirm that you’re interacting with an official representative of the company where you’d be applying. Avoid responding to offers that sound too good to be true, such as high-paying work-from-home gigs.
  • If a friend asks you for money using chat or messaging functionality of a social networking site, confirm that you’re interacting with the person you know, rather than an impostor or a bot that compromised the account. This could be a variation of the stuck-in-London scam.
  • Be careful clicking on links that use unusual URL-shortening services or those that promise to display shocking or embarrassing videos. If such links bring you to a site that doesn’t feel right, close the browser tab without clicking any buttons on the page to avoid clickjacking attacks and other scams.
  • Don’t download any tools or software updates when prompted to do so after clicking a link you obtained from a social networking site. This could be an attempt to propagate malware.

Source: http://blog.zeltser.com/post/8503487922/11-social-networking-security-tips

And another personal tip is that when you need to create an account, never simply use your date of birthday to be the password, and use different password for different accounts.

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Impact of Social Media- Weibo

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Currently, the development of social media offers a wide range of benefits, e.g. a more cheap and efficient way of communication among citizens or between citizen and government, quickly spreading news around and so on.

In this blog, the issue what happened last year in my hometown turned out to be solved by social media successfully in some extent.

“China’s days of pursuing growth above all else are over. Protest upon protest over industrial projects that citizens see as damaging to health and the environment make that plain; people are no longer willing to put up with pollution and the consequences. Officials in the eastern city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province should have been aware of the need for changed ways, yet were unprepared for demonstrations over the planned expansion of a petrochemical plant that led to clashes with police at the weekend. They have halted the expansion, scrapping a controversial facility, and promised public consultations and greater transparency.”

Source: http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1072726/ningbo-protests-against-growth-any-costt

 Following several days of mass protests against two proposed petrochemical projects amid environmental and health concerns, officials in the coastal city of Ningbo announced late Sunday that the projects would be halted. The government’s announcement failed to deter protesters, however, who continued to gather outside the government offices Monday and demand that the city’s mayor step down.

Online, suspension of the projects was formally announced through the official social media account of the Ningbo government at 6:45 p.m. yesterday, October 28, 2012. The post read: “[We have] learned from a news spokesman from the Ningbo City Government that the city government has been decided after research with the project investor that: (1) the PX project will definitely not go forward; (2) preliminary work for the chemical refinery project will be halted and a scientific assessment redone.”

Sourcehttp://cmp.hku.hk/2012/10/29/28267/

During the people were against to the project hold by the government, citizens used social media- Weibo to spread news and talked about their opinions. After citizens published a large amount of blogs, pictures, video and opinions in Weibo, it attracted the government’s attention to this issue. PX project should be considered again before putting into action. At the end, government gave up this project.

From my point of view, in this issue, citizens in China make a good use of social media- Weibo to show their opinions and try to communicate with government. And both party are involved and try to make the win-win decision. So in current society, social media is of huge benefits, which provide us a platform to communicate more efficiently. It is the age of Weibo in China.

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