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Smart Phones, Social Media, & Your Kids
Image Courtesy of: http://www.flickr.com/photos/howto/5239291497/sizes/s/in/photostream/
November 5 2014Steve Morrill
Purpose of Today
• Raise awareness but not paranoia• What is Social Media?• How your kids and you can be socially
engineered?• How can you protect yourself and your
kids?• How can you make good decisions?
1998
Google files for incorporation in California September 4, 1998.
Hearings open between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice as to whether Microsoft has a monopoly on the software market.
Today’s Web Reality
• “Who needs the NSA when we have Social Media?”Bloomberg Businessweek April 8, 2011
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_12/b4220066790741.htm
• Reputation• Social Media is everywhere! • You are the content!• Searching the web for private information• 1.25 billion• 14• Internet Research
– Google– Bing
So how does all this work?
• Why are Smart Phones GPS enabled?• What do you use the internet for?• Privacy / control• What do you share online?
Installing Apps
Terms and Conditions
• Taken from Wattpad.com TOS• C. You will not create an account if you are under 13
years of age.• D. You will not use Wattpad if you are a convicted sex
offender.• You further understand and acknowledge that you may
be exposed to User Submissions that are inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable, and you agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against Wattpad.com
Youtube & Home Internet
• Safe Search• http://www.safesearchkids.com• http://www.teachertube.com/• Content filtering on tablets/iPads• Top rated home internet filters
– http://internet-filter-review.toptenreviews.com/• Filtering is pretty easily defeated
Game Services
• Minecraft• STEAM• Playstation Network• XBOX Live
Facebook Stats
• 1.3 billion monthly active users in the 2nd qtr of 2014
• 300 million photos uploaded per day• 83 million fake profiles
Kik Messenger
Instagram• Owned by Facebook – purchased for $1billion
• All photos are public and searchable
• Photos are also GPS tagged by default
• You can turn that feature off – Instagram now also asks you
• Anonymous accounts – Cyber bullying
SnapChat
SnapChatit appears possible that "teenagers are more likely using the app to safely explore the sort of silly, unguarded, and sometimes unwise ideas that have always occupied the teenage brain ... in a manner that won't haunt them forever. In other words, they're chatting with Snapchat precisely because it's not like chatting with Facebook."
• What happens to a tweet?– Every public tweet, ever, since Twitter’s
inception in March 2006, will be archived digitally at the Library of Congress.
– As of Jan 7 2013 LOC has 170 billion tweets now available for research purposes.
– LOC Press Release 4-15-10 http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-081.html
• REPUTATION
Reality Check
• Passwords• College Recruitment• Scholarships • Damage to your reputation
Reality Check
What can You do?
• Be aware of what you are sharing• Know your applications• Know your devices• Have a “healthy skepticism”• Educate • Make good decisions about the
information that you share• If something isn’t right talk to an adult
you trust
What can You do?
• Common Sense Media Resources• K-5 Family Media Agreement• 6-8 Family Media Agreement
Questions?