Post on 26-Mar-2020
Social Networking
and Youby Pam Jensen Instructor and the
Information Security Students at
Social Networking The
New Way to Keep in Touch
• What is Social Networking?
• How to use Social Networking?
• What are the dangers?
• How can we protect ourselves?
What is Social
Networking?
• Web based services, such as:
• Chat, messaging, email, video, filesharing, blogging, and personalweb pages.
• Social networking websites areused by millions of peopleeveryday
• Social networking is a part ofeveryday life.
Social Network
Advantages
• Pros:
• These sites have millions of
members
• Stay in touch with friends
• Reconnect with old friends
• Meet and make new friends
• Keep up with classes using
external applications such as
“Courses”.
Social Network
Advantages
• Families and friends can post
pictures and keep in touch
• Advertise your business for little or
no cost with a web page
• Use for centralized updates when
planning events such as weddings
or graduation
• Use to honor someone who has died
Social Network
Challenges
• Cons• What’s on the Web, Stays on the
web…FOREVER!!!
• Anyone can spoof your identity andcreate a fake facebook profile
• If you post addresses & phonenumbers in groups or mini-feeds,anyone can see them.
The Social World of the
Internet
• According to Pew Internet:
• 64% of online teenagers ages 12to 17 engage in content creation
• Girls dominate content creation
• 66% Believe their profile is notvisible to everyone
• 48% Visit social networking sitesdaily.
Teens Surveyed on Social
Network
• Girls 15-17 are more likely touse social networking sites
• 91% use sites to keep in touchwith friends they see regularly
• 85% of those surveyed useMySpace while only 7% useFacebook
Pew, Social Networking Websites and Teens an Overview,January 2007
• Started as a social networking
site for college students
• Users must be members of one of
30,000+ recognized schools,
colleges, universities,
organizations, and companies
• Facebook is the 7th most
trafficked site in the U.S.
Facebook Facts
• Terms of use:• By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically
grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right togrant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive,transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right tosublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display,reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distributesuch User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, orotherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotionthereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into otherworks, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicensesof the foregoing.
• Facebook can take all of the info youhave posted onto Facebook, whetherabout yourself or your friends, anduse that information as it wishes toforever
The Reality
• Any thing that you post online is nolonger yours it belongs to the site
• Search engines such as Google canlink people to the content on yourpage – without your knowledge orconsent
• Information posted to a socialnetworking site can be retainedforever!!
Who is Kevin Colvin?
He called in sick to
work one day and
this is what his boss
say the next day!
Meet Kevin Colvin!!!
The Facts
• An adware program invites users to find outwho has a secret crush on them.
• Users must invite five other Facebook friendsto install the same adware program before theirmystery admirer is revealed.
• Instead of revealing their secret crush they geta website that downloads applications tocontinuously display pop-up advertising
What you Post can get
you in trouble
• The name you choose can tellpeople more about you than youwant them to know
• Hotstuff 90
• Thunderhawk26
• Pictures can be posted online
• Teens in Eden Prairie were caughtdrinking at a party and banned fromseveral sports
• A*******
• Networks:Montevideo Senior HighSchool '08
• Sex:Female
• Interested In:MenLookingFor:Friendship
• Birthday: January 6, 1990
• Hometown:Montevideo, MN
• Political Views:Moderate
• Religious Views:Christian - Lutheran
Sex is out there
• One in 3 teens online is exposedto sexually explicit material
• One in 7 was solicited online
• MySpace was investigated forallowing sex offenders to use thesite
• They are now attempting to policeusers
MySpace was Sued by
Parents
District Judge Sam Sparks saidthat MySpace had “no duty toprotect” a minor from sexualpredators “nor institutereasonable safety measures onits Web site. If anyone had aduty to protect [the minor] itwas her parents, not MySpace.”
Meeting an Online
Friend
• Have them send you their phone
number and do a search on the
name and number
• Report any suspicious activity
to law enforcement
• Tell your parents, meet in a
public place and DO NOT GO
ALONE!!!
Cyber Bullying
• Unwanted email, instant
messages, postings to a social
networking site
• Most online teens have received
unwanted messages
• They are not harmless and can
destroy careers, relationships,
even lives
Cyber Bullying
• 90% of middle school students have had
their feelings hurt online
• 75% say they have visited a Web site
bashing another student
• 40% have had their password stolen and
been locked out of own account
Source: wiredsafety.org
Cyber Bullying
• Megan Meier hanged herself after being
the victim of a cruel hoax. A fight with
her best friend had the best friend's
mom seek revenge. They set up a site on
My Space, invented a fake boy, and had
him start a relationship with Megan. It
cost her life.
Local Stories
• A girl spoofed her professor’s identity,
and created a facebook page with his
identity.
• A Willmar man faces charges of Internet
solicitation charges: Appleton 14 year-
old was the target (January 2008)
• Do you have a story to share?
What Teens Can Do
• Do not post information that
identifies you, your phone, school,
hometown, etc – your friends
already know this information
• Keep your space private and do not
let friends of friends view your site
• Do periodic Internet searches to see
what is out there about you
What Teens Can Do
• Do NOT get together with an online
friend until you verify their background
• Meet only in public places
• Bring a friend or two with you
• Tell your parents
• Share your site with your parents
• If you do not want to show your parents
then it should not be on your site
• Your parents will eventually find out
Using Social Networking
in the Classroom
• Assign students to build a site
and ask them to make you a
friend
• Use the Course Feature to
update Classes
• Use cell phones for contact and
group messages
How do you use Social
Networking in Your Classes