1. THE SOCIAL NETWORK & ONLINE PRIVACY

2. Privacy What is privacy? Is it a desirable thing?
How does the meaning change between the real world and online world?
Where and when do you have privacy? Where and when do you NOT have it?
What are some ways in which people’s privacy can be compromised?

3. How is your privacy affected when someone…..
Knows your name or your age?
Knows your phone number or home address?
Knows your favorite snack or TV show?
Looks into your room?
Overhears a private conversation?
Reads your s or Instant Messages?
Follows you around all day?
All of these examples vary in importance, they all represent a loss in privacy because someone - possibly a complete stranger - gets to find out personal information.

4. Privacy Diary My Privacy Everyday THINK ABOUT EVERY TIME YOU…...
Pass a security camera
Give out information such as name, phone number, address
Download or upload a computer file
Sign into a website
Visit a site that uses cookies (what is a cookie?)
Turn on a cell phone
Send an , instant message or text message
Studies show that more than ½ of young people say they’ve thought twice about posting something online, and fewer than 1 in 5 have a fully public profile.
It is nearly impossible to entirely guarantee your privacy online, what is possible is privacy management and knowing how to adjust privacy settings to minimize the loss of privacy.

5. TIPS
Ask: How many have Facebook profiles, MySpace, Friendster? What do you like about this kind of online environment? How many list your birthday, phone number or address in your profile?

6. THE STORY BEHIND “THE FACEBOOK”
Who Invented It? When and how did it all begin?
Mark Zuckerburg - Net worth 71.5 billion dollars (5th richest person in the world)
The Facebook began in Feb.4th, 2004
Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product

7. In 2010, at the time of the movie “The Social Network”, the company was valued at 25 billion dollars.
July.27th, valued at 500 billion dollars.
2.01 billion monthly active members

8. INTERESTING FACTS Updated August 2017
1.32 billion users daily
5 profiles created every second
83 million FAKE profiles
Every 60 seconds: ,000 comments are posted, 293,000 status updates, 136,000 photos uploaded (300 million per day)
50% of 18-24yr olds go on Facebook when they wake up

9. Definitions Profile Friend Friend request Status update Timeline
Newsfeed
Timeline - where all of your activity is recorded
Newsfeed - an update of what you’re doing right now

10. Questions
How many of you have received friend requests from someone you haven’t met in person?
How many have accepted friends you haven’t met in person? What influences your decision to accept?
How many know how to control who sees all or part of your profile?
How many have changed Facebook privacy settings?
What information do you make available to everyone?
What do you make available only to Friends?
Is all of your information accurate?

11. Who can see me?
Give 5-10min then discuss if any of the following are on their list…
Parents (½ check without child knowledge), teachers, potential employers (more than ¾ check up on job applicants)(College/University check for misbehaviors before admission), advertisers, internet predators
Discuss they these people might be on their list

12. What are….. “things nobody should see”
“things only friends and/or family should see”
“things everybody can see”
What profile information belongs under each heading?
What is important….having privacy? Or high visibility?
What factors influence your decision?
Which aspects of privacy are most important to you?

14. Which elements should I not include if this were to be made public?
Which elements could be made available to family and/or friends?

15. Discuss with a partner and be prepared to share your thoughts.
Based on what you’ve learned, what should be included in a “model” profile?
2) What elements can make a profile personal and interesting without giving up to much privacy?