The article, “Does social networking create digital ghettos,” is certainly worth a read for its primary subject. However, one thing is striking about the article, too: we return again to the idea that G+ allows you to have social networking while limiting your audience.
From the perspective of the article this is about limiting the audience for the dumb things you say when you are younger (or when you are new to social networking).
For missionaries, however, it can also be about sharing mission-specific information with a small set of people, and being able to limit its re-sharing. New controls in G+ that have become more evident enable to you prevent a post from being reshared.
Of course, there’s always the possibility that someone might do copy-and-paste–but this would have to be overtly malicious. What G+ does is enable a missionary to talk “a little more freely” with selected people knowing that someone’s lack of technical aptitude or knowledge of how G+ works isn’t likely to accidentally cause them to share your “little more free” post with the world.
{ 0 comments… add one now }