In this activity, we have to be online in Second Life @ TP to chat with students from HKPolyU. I was assigned to go online on the 15th November, I missed that time slot out as I doesn't have any computer at home to allow me to access, including my laptop which was sent for repair since school reopens :( Thus, I went online the next day using my bf's laptop. I downloaded Second Life and went it at around 9. Luckily there's quite a number of HKPolyU students over there to chat with! A student named Wai (sclife006) shout out to all asking for people to interview. Thus, I approach him and chat with him :)
Wai was interested in going over to German for his holidays. He's reason being that German is a great country, he likes German's culture, and quite a lot of great people were born there. What surprises me is that he even pick up German language too, and got himself a Kindergarden level in German, interesting! haha. He even plan to get there in about 2 and a half years later, after his Master Degrees. When we comes to this question, "Is it ethical to use social media for harmful effects?" He said that this question is quite biasing, and his opinion is that to do something for harmful effect in very most of the case is not ethical just like in real life, when you harm others, it couldn't be ethical.
After that, I saw a new message from russellwmy who have sent me earlier on but i didn't notice it. >< Thus, I decided to talk to him and ask him the next 2 questions. When I asked about how to use Social Media in a more responsible way, his response was don't do cyber bullying, next, I ask about how can he protect himself from cyber bullying, he response with making a second thought before uploading anything on the net. Which i find it true and this applies to every other people who have an online account. While for personal information, set them up to proper private settings to allow only friends to access.
Overall, I think that this exercise was fun! It allows us to see different views from people from other country and I even add russellwmy in Facebook!
