Social Interactions In The Digital Age: AvenueA Teen Center Family Safety Seminar

The Case of Nicole Lovell Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nicole-lovell-death-social-media_us_56bae980e4b0c3c5504f6f24

“Digital Natives” Marc Prensky (2001)

Negative Effects of Social Media False sense of connection Loss of privacy Social distraction Facebook depression Internet addiction Decreased productivity at school, work Cyberbullying among teenagers Online predators

Social Network Usage

Social Interactions In The Digital Age 67% of users in a marriage or committed relationship have shared their password to at least one online account with their partner. 25% of married or partnered adults have texted their partner while they were both at home. 25% of cellphone owners have felt their spouse or partner was distracted by their device during alone time. 41% of 18-29 year olds have felt closer to their partner because of chatting or texting. 23% of 18-29 year olds have resolved an argument using digital means. Source: “The Truth About Dating In the Digital Age,” http://www.popsugar.com/tech/Online-Dating-Study-32224214

Relationship Forming In The Digital Age Among teenagers with dating experience (35%), 1 in 4 (24%) have dated or hooked up with someone they originally encountered online. Source: Pew Research Center, “Teen Voices: Dating In The Digital Age,” October 1, 2015, http://www.pewinternet.org/online-romance/

Dating In The Digital Age Source: Pew Research Center, “Teen Voices: Dating In The Digital Age,” October 1, 2015, http://www.pewinternet.org/online-romance/

Dating In The Digital Age Source: Pew Research Center, “Teen Voices: Dating In The Digital Age,” October 1, 2015, http://www.pewinternet.org/online-romance/

Dating In The Digital Age Source: Pew Research Center, “Teen Voices: Dating In The Digital Age,” October 1, 2015, http://www.pewinternet.org/online-romance/

Dating In The Digital Age Source: Pew Research Center, “Teen Voices: Dating In The Digital Age,” October 1, 2015, http://www.pewinternet.org/online-romance/

Dating In The Digital Age Source: Pew Research Center, “Teen Voices: Dating In The Digital Age,” October 1, 2015, http://www.pewinternet.org/online-romance/

Dating In The Digital Age Source: Pew Research Center, “Teen Voices: Dating In The Digital Age,” October 1, 2015, http://www.pewinternet.org/online-romance/

Social Interactions In The Digital Age

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On the technical side …

Routers, DNS & The Internet What is a router and how does it work? Simply put, the router and more commonly at home, the wireless router, is the brain of your network.   If the router is your brain and the network is your body, it is the device that tells everything what is going on and how to do things.   It assigns information in the form IP's to each device on the network so they can talk to the inside and outside world via the internet.  It also connects to the modem from your internet provider and lets your home network send information in and out to the larger network that is the internet.   To control what comes in and out, we need to tell the brain (router) what is ok and what isn't.  We do this a few ways:

The Router is the brain

Creating a Safe Internet Experience Program the router to only use a certain route in and out of the internet that avoids the bad websites.   Think of the internet as a highway, when you leave your house you might try to avoid bad neighborhoods by taking different roads, avenues or routes to get to your destination. This is the same concept as programming your router to use a new, safer DNS service. The router can also dictate when and where you go on these various internet journeys.  You can program it to only allow internet access for certain periods of time or windows during the day/night. The best feature of using a DNS service like openDNS is the ability to block ALL WEBSITES except the handful you want your child to be able to access. OR if you have a teen or older child you can block large groups of websites based on content categories (drugs, gambling, alcohol, sex and so on) Ok, makes sense.. Now what….

DNS Service and openDNS DNS Tells the internet what IP addresses map to which computers/servers openDNS provides a map for your home computers that keeps computers in safe internet areas

How to get started… We recommend netgear products for 3 reasons: they are low cost, work well and have parental control and safety features built in.   You can spend 38 dollars on a netgear router that will plug into your EXISTING network and create a safe wireless signal for your kids only.  With this new router setup, you can work through the features below to lock down the connection and turn on monitoring A very effective way to do the monitoring is to use a family safe dns service from OpenDNS.   Costs: $38 dollars for the "Kids" router / $20/dollar/year for the openDNS family safety DNS service Purchase the router, setup the wifi, subscribe to openDNS family and put their settings in your router.  

Take-away Points Make sure you have credentials to their email and social media accounts. Rather than “friending” them, you can spot check and have private conversations We propose to address the monitoring at the Router level by managing the internet connection using DNS NOT installing apps and lockdown features on every device Use the domain browsing history to spot check Setup access schedules in the router so internet is only available after homework (for example) For very young children, block the entire internet and just make certain sites available For kids & teens block content categories For text messaging – check with your phone provider to see if you can receive detailed logs

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