Presented by Luc St. Laurent

• how are people social and how do they interact in the real world? how to apply this to the online world?
• why is it that online we can’t do what we do in real life
• we are taught to behave differently depending on who is around us
• different aspects of a person’s personality is shared with different audiences/social groups
• what’s the concept of identity? –> starts at a young age and changes over time
• expectations of social behaviour in different situations
• what about social protocols online?
• in real life, you know who is listening; online, you don’t know who listens
• should the online community be the way it is now? should it be open?
• eavesdropping on Twitter – we can’t always know who’s listening
• Facebook privacy settings –> trickle effect of information and the settings
• most people aren’t actively monitoring their privacy settings on social networks
• self-censorship is key first step
• need to define what is public space and information
• information being “leaked” is sometimes not the full picture
• many stories these days of people losing jobs due to information being leaked
• how far are companies allowed to go to get information? we have more control over in-life information sharing versus online sharing
• companies need more protocols around information gathering online
• information online is often presented out of context
• when there is so much information and no context, how can we put context around the information?
• not sure if we can; the information constantly changes
• how can we put context on something like microblogging and small bits of information, versus a single conversation
• people need to research information rather than taking sound bites at face value; but everything wants information quickly
• some online conversations are so fleeting–how to understand them if you are not a participant?
• building profile of a person off bits of information versus putting context on the information
• people act differently within different existing networks; people build new networks and social behaviour online
• what happens when people don’t have many real life personalities to separate online?