Smart Phones, Social Media, & Your Kids Image Courtesy of: November Steve 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 GoogleGoogle files for incorporation in California September 4, Hearings open between Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice as to whether Microsoft has a monopoly on the software market. Microsoft

Today’s Web Reality “Who needs the NSA when we have Social Media?” Bloomberg Businessweek April 8, 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

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Youtube & Home Internet Safe Search Content filtering on tablets/iPads Top rated home internet filters – 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 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

Instagram

SnapChat

it 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."

Twitter 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 LOC has 170 billion tweets now available for research purposes. –LOC Press Release REPUTATION

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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?