Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook

11:15 am

Mr. Simon Milner:

As she has clearly demonstrated, Ms Patricia Cartes is the expert on these issues. It worth saying, before she answers those questions in detail, that the real identity principle goes right across the site. It is really about people's profiles, that is about users. When somebody creates a page, that can be about an organisation, a passion he or she has, a job one has heard, it can be about all kinds of things. They are different. It is worth understanding the nature of a page versus a profile. There is no such thing as an inauthentic page. There is such thing as an inauthentic profile. I expect many of the Deputies and Senators have pages and that is a rather different entity. I will allow Ms Patricia Cartes to respond to those questions and I hope that will help the committee understands how it works on Facebook.

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