1.Youth Safety on the Social Web Larry Magid & Anne Collier Co-directors ConnectSafely.org Revised 1/09 2009 ConnectSafely.org

2. Whatisthe social Web?

• • -- Also known as Web 2.0--

• • User-produced, youth-driven

• • Multiple devices

• • Multimedia

• • Uploadable, downloadable

• • Difficult to control

3. Web 1.0 4. On Web 2.0...-- Michael Kinsley, Slate.com, 11/27/06 ... everybodyknows youre a dog. 5. Social networking is whatever

• • anyone wants it to be!

• • Entertainment + socializing + homework help + media-sharing + creative outlet + friends latest news

• • A place to learn digital-media skills

• • A hangout on Web, phones, gaming

6.

Todays phones are full-blown mobile computers with...

Mobile social networking

Social mapping

Photo- & video-sharing

Web browsing

24/7 texting

Even less adult supervision

Cellphones too 7. Majority of teens in social sites

65% of teens use social networks and create profiles(Pew/2009)

70% of 15-to-17-year-old girls

48% of teens visit sites daily or more often;26% visit once a day

• • 22% visit several times a day

Source: Pew Internet & American Life survey 8. Not justMySpace & Facebook YouTube, MyYearbook, Bebo, Hi5& manynichesocial network sites Ning:Allows users to create their own social networks, or mini-MySpaces. Allows porn (with splash page).Twitter & Plurk:Micro-blogging - 140 characters or less. Kind of like blended chat & IM. Twitter mostly adults, Plurk a little younger. Second Life & other virtual worlds : Users create avatars that interact in a virtual world. Hulu:Fast-growing video-sharing site (153 million video streams, 9/08); popular for viewing whole shows online And some are a bit more questionable . JuicyCampusGossip site, total anonymity, no rules. Stickam : Social video-streaming site with live webcam chat. 9. What are theydoing in there?

Good or normal

Social producing

Learning social rules

Decorating profiles (self-expression)

Exploring identity

Writing blogs

Writing software code

Risk assessment

Discovering music

Producing & editing videos

Discussing interests

Social/political activism

Keeping in touch with friends long-term

10. Whatelseare they doingin there?

Neutral or negative

Seeking validation

Competing in a popularity contest

Venting

Showing off

Embarrassing themselves

Pulling pranks

Getting even

Harassing

11. The Neteffect

Persistence & searchability:Net as permanent searchable archive

Replicability : ability to copy and paste from anywhere, to anywhere

Scalability:high potential visibility

Invisible audiences:you never know whos watching

Collapsed contexts:different audiences hear & see different things

Blurring of public and private:boundaries not clear

Source: danah boyd:Taken out of Context, 2008 12. Mostly for real-life friends

72% use sites to socialize with their real-life friends.

Only a modest number (17%) of social-networking teens say they use the sites to flirt.

Source: Pew Internet & American Life survey January 2007 13. Teensdohave a clue when it comes to safety & privacy

66% of teens who have created a profile say that their profile is not visible by all Internet users. They limit access to their profiles.

21% say their profile is not currently visible.

Just 1% of social-network users say they do not know who can see their profile.

Source: Pew Internet & American Life survey January 2007 14. Are they careful about photos?

Yes and no (more on Web than on phones)

Cellphones : Reports ofsexting (nude photo-sharing) are growing

Web : 39% say they restrict access to their photos most of the time.

38% report restricting access only sometimes.

21% of teens who post photos say they never restrict access to the images they upload. (Onlineadultsare more lax in restricting access.)

Source: Pew Internet & American Life survey January 2007 15. Teens are alive today, thanks to social-networking sites Plan To 'Shoot Up' School Foiled Jan 12, 2009: Deputies in Transylvania County said they got a call from a sheriff's office in New York. A teenager there apparently came forward and said she met a 15-year-old on MySpace who said he had a dangerous plan. 16. Question : What proportion of teens have been approached online by a predator?

1 in 20

1 in 10

1 in 7

1 in 5

Almost half

17. Its a trick question 18. What the surveys really said

The survey asked Did you receive an unwanted sexual solicitation in the past year

The response went from 1 in 5 in 2000 to 1 in 7 in 2005.An improvement

43% of all solicitations and 44% of aggressive solicitations came from youth

39% of solicitors were adult but all but 9% of those were between 18 and 25

Two-thirds or more of the youth described solicitations as not particularly distressing

The number of children actually molested went from none in 2000 to 2 (out of 1500) in 2005.It can happen, but its statistically very rare.

Online Victimization of Youth: Five Years Later Crimes Against Children Research Center, 2006 19. Question Do you agree that the growth in young peoples use of the Internet correlates with a rise in sexual abuse against children? 20. SA Sub 1990-2005* Rate per 10,000 Children (