Amy Randolph-Chernis

Blogging Facebook LinkedIn Twitter YouTube Social Networking!

Approximately 200 million blogs 90% of blogs fail in the first year The majority of web users interact with blogs every single day Blogging

400 million users The average U.S. Internet user spends more time on Facebook than on Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Microsoft, Wikipedia and Amazon combined. Average age is 38 #2 visited site (after Google) The New Oxford American Dictionary voted “unfriend” as the 2009 Word of the Year. Facebook

50 million+ users The largest truly business-oriented site Average age is 44 LinkedIN

“Twitter” was the top word of 2009, according to the Global Language Monitor. Average age is million+ users Only about 20% are active Twitter

2 billion videos watched daily The number two search engine after YouTube

 Brian Honan is the founder of BH Consulting and head of Ireland's first CERT team. As a speaker at RSA Conference Europe 2009 he discussed the danger of social networks and showed how he was able to discover detailed information about a person. In this interview, he outlines the privacy issues of social networking, online anonymity and more. In your opinion, is it possible to achieve a reasonable level of privacy while still using social networks? “Yes it is. Humans are social animals by our nature and social networks are just one other outlet for humans to interact. We should not look at social networks are threats but as opportunities for us to interact with people globally. I myself am an active user of social networks and have made many friends and business contacts online that I would otherwise not have had the same level of opportunity or interaction.”

 15% of Americans have never checked their social networking privacy and security account settings. (National Cyber Security Alliane (NCSA)-MacAfee Online Safety Study, 2011)  24% of Americans say they are not at all confident in their ability to use privacy settings. (National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA)- MacAfee Online Safety Study, 2011)  38% of Facebook users in the last year were under the age of 13. (Consumer Reports, June 2011)  Of the active adult users of Facebook, 66% reported they did not know privacy controls existed on Facebook and/or they did not know how to use the privacy controls. (Consumer Reports, June 2011)  29% of Internet sex crime relationships were initiated on a social networking site. (Journal of Adolescent Health 47, 2010)

 72% of teens have a social networking profile and nearly half (47%) have a public profile viewable by anyone.  Teens often include the following information on their social networking profiles:  Real age (50%)  Photos of themselves (62%)  City they live in (41%)  School name/location (45%)  Videos of friends (16%)  Videos of themselves (14%)  Their cell phone number (14%)  Places where they typically go (9%)  59% of teens perceive that public blogs or social networking sites are unsafe.  76% of teens are at least somewhat concerned that posting information publicly could negatively impact future.  26% of teens know someone something bad has happened to because of information or photos posted online.

 What does the recent interest in the world wide web indicate about the nature of “change”?  What impact has the world wide web had on the modern world?

 What impact has the world wide web, with its access to government sites, social networking sites, and information 24/ 7 had on the modern world?  What impact has this had on privacy?