Social Media
Disclosure
The following describes the Social Media
Disclosure for our ezBizCoach.com website.
Social Media Issue
We live in an interesting time when privacy
rights are championed alongside an
unprecedented voluntary willingness of
people to share their most intimate and
superfluous life details with the world,
even in places such as
our website. While apparently
benign on the surface, the dangers of
unrestrained public disclosure of sensitive
information is beginning to surface.
Key social media players are being sued for
unauthorized or abusive use/misuse of
personal information. Failure to
protect and warn are likely going to be
focal factors. Lawsuits are filed
seeking damages for statements held to be
responsible for people's death or
suicide. Bloggers presuming to operate
under an unfettered freedom of speech or
greater latitude offered to members of the
press are losing civil cases for defamation,
slander, libel, and so on.
As social media rapidly advances to allow
more technologically sophisticated and easy
dissemination, the simultaneous fallout of
revelation without boundaries is
mounting. Thus, a sober approach to
the benefits of social media, while
sidestepping the perils of imprudent
disclosure, can facilitate an enjoyable
online experience, without the consequences
of excess, in settings such as our own
ezBizCoach.com website.
Presence/Scope of Social Media
You should assume that social media is in
use on our website. A simple click of
a button to endorse a person, product, or
service is building a cumulative profile
about you, which you should always assume
can be discovered by others.
Attempting to share a website with someone,
whether by direct press of a button or else
by email forwarding facilitated on a
website, you should assume that this may not
stop with the intended recipient, and that
this can generate information about you that
could be seen by a veritable infinite number
of people. Such a domino effect could
initiate right here on our ezBizCoach.com
website.
Something as simple as a blog comment
provides the opportunity for knee-jerk
reactions that can become public and may not
truly represent a position (at least in
strength or severity) that you might hold
after a period of more reasoned
contemplation. You should also note
that the ease of accessing one site through
the login credentials of another, or the use
of a global login for access to multiple
sites can accumulate a dossier on you
and your online behavior that may reveal
more information to unintended parties than
you might realize or want. Any or all
of these features could exist on our website
at one time or another.
These few examples illustrate some possible
ways that social media can exist, though it
is not an exhaustive list and new
technologies will render this list outdated
quickly. The objective is to realize
the reach of social media, its widespread
presence on websites in various forms
(including this website), and develop a
responsible approach to using it.
Protecting Others
You should recognize the fact that
divulgences made in and on social media
platforms on this website and others are
rarely constrained just to you.
Disclosures are commonly made about group
matters that necessarily affect and impact
other people. Other disclosures are
expressly about third parties, sometimes
with little discretion. What can
appear funny in one moment can be tragic in
the next. And a subtle "public"
retaliation can have lifetime repercussions.
Ideal use of social media on our website
would confine your disclosures primarily to
matters pertaining to you, not others.
If in doubt, it's best to err on the side of
non-disclosure. It's doubtful the
disclosure is so meaningful that it cannot
be offset by the precaution of acting to
protect the best interests of someone who is
involuntarily being exposed by your decision
to disclose something on our ezBizCoach.com
website (or another).
Protecting Yourself
You should likewise pause to consider the
long-term effects of a split-second decision
to publicly share private information about
yourself on our website. Opinions,
likes, dislikes, preferences, and otherwise
can change. Openly divulging
perspectives that you hold today, may
conflict with your developing views into the
futures. Yet, the "new you" will
always stand juxtaposed against the prior
declarations you made that are now
concretized as part of your public
profile. While the contents of your
breakfast may hold little long-term impact,
other data likewise readily shared can have
consequences that could conceivably impact
your ability to obtain certain employment or
hinder other life experiences and ambitions.
As with sharing information about other
people, extreme caution should be used
before revealing information about
yourself. If in doubt, it's likely
best not to do it. The short term
gain, if any, could readily be outweighed by
later consequences. Finally, you
should note that we are not responsible for
removing content once shared, and we may not
be able to do so.
Restrictions on Use of Social Media Data
You, as a visitor to our ezBizCoach.com
website, are not permitted to "mine" social
media or other platforms contained herein
for personal information related to
others. Even where people have
publicly displayed data, you should not
construe that as though you have the liberty
to capture, reproduce, or reuse that
information. Any use of social media
or related platforms on our website are for
interactive use only, relevant only during
the website visit.
Accuracy of Social Media Data
As any social media platform is built on
user-generated content, you should consider
this fact in seeking to determine the
authenticity of anything you read. We
are not responsible for verifying any
user-generated content for accuracy. A
best practices policy would be to view all
such content as strictly opinion, not fact.
Potential Issues of Liability
You should also be mindful of the fact that
your words could trigger liability for harm
caused to others. While you have the
right to free speech, you do not have the
right to damage other people. Under
basic principles of tort law, you are always
responsible, personally, for situations
where either:
1. you were required to act, but did not
(i.e. - some "duty of care")
2. your were required to refrain from
acting, but did not (i.e. slander,
defamation, etc.)
These "sins of omission and commission"
could cause problems for you, irrespective
of whether you assert you are conducting
business under the guise of one or more
business entities. Illegal and
unethical conduct, when done in the name of
a corporation or LLC, is still illegal and
unethical conduct. As it is rarely
part of a business plan to engage in illegal
and unethical conduct, you are doubtfully
operating in any official capacity, but
rather, perhaps, leveraging that capacity to
effectuate personal wrongdoing. You
should consult a licensed attorney if you
wish legal advice as to the (potential)
ramification of your situation or legal
problems stemming from this website or
another.
CHANGE NOTICE: As with any of our
administrative and legal notice pages, the
contents of this page can and will change
over time. Accordingly, this page
could read differently as of your very next
visit. These changes are necessitated,
and carried out by JDD Publishing, in order
to protect you and our ezBizCoach.com
website. If this page is important to
you, you should check back frequently as no
other notice of changed content will be
provided either before or after the change
takes effect.
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