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Teens 2.0Teens, Tech and What You Need To
KnowBarry Caplin District 196 Parent FairChief Information Security Officer Nov. 5,
2011Minnesota Department of Human [email protected], [email protected]@bcaplin, +barrycaplin, *bcaplin
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Interactive
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Topics
social networks portable devices/sexting geolocation disconnecting/e-grounding e-cheating cyber-bullying reputation management
Social Network
a connected set of users or organizations
Social Networks
• Over 800M users• > 2004 Internet• #1 site for time spent• #2 site for video sharing
Social networking usage:• Up 88% among users aged 55-64• age 65+ use up 100%• 47% of 50-64 year-old Internet users use social media• 26% of those over 65
Pew Internet & American Life Project April 2009 - May 2010
Facebook Demographics
• Microblogging
• 2nd biggest SNS >200M users (passed MySpace)
• Changed media paradigm
• But many kids don’t tweet
More…
•#3
•> 100M users
•Professional networking
MySpace
•Not Dead Yet!
•#4 and dropping
More…
Google Plus
•> 40M users
•Not big with teens
Diaspora
•Still in test
•Invite-only
These are two to watch
Time Teens Spend Online
Daily:
• 2 hrs 20 min online
• 1 hr 50 min on SNS
Rioworld study, July, 2010
Social Networks can help Teens
• Teens using SNS with friends, not strangers – UVA
• Kids/Teens online worlds/friendships resemble offline – Cal State LA
• "The digital world is creating new opportunities for youth to grapple with social norms, to explore interests, develop technical skills and experiment with new forms of self expression“ – Digital Youth Project
• children who can go to a parent with a problem are more willing to accept parental limits on their media use and less likely to seek online trouble – Cornell U
LA Times, May 2010
• Teens with depression or aggressive/delinquent behavior more likely to find trouble online – UVA
• Children more likely bullied or sexually propositioned by peers they know rather than by a stranger online – Harvard U Berkman Center for Internet and Society
• “it is largely the child, not the technology or even the time a kid spends using it, that seems to influence how safely he or she will navigate the digital world” – Developmental Psychology journal
LA Times, May 2010
On top of it
• 71% of teens/young adults changed their online profile privacy settings.
• 57% used search engines to see info about themselves.
• 47% deleted comments made by others.• 41% untagged photos.• 91% of teens use social networks to stay
in touch with people they know/see often, 82% for friends they rarely see.
Reputation Management and Social Media. Pew Internet & American Life Project, May, 2010
Generation M2, Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2010
Cell Phones
• They’re everywhere!
• Special plans for younger kids
• Calls, texting, pictures, video, games, apps, music, Internet…
• Internet access is truly mobile!
• Trickier to know what kids are doing
• Cell data services $$$
Cell Phones
Sexting
• Texts/attachments not private
• Currently considered child porn
• Tunkhannock, PA
Geolocation
The world knows
• Where you are
• Where you are not
Life without Facebook
• Doing without
• U of Maryland, 2010 – 24 hours (all tech)
• Harrisburg U, 2010 – 1 week (social media)
• E-grounding
• Disconnected, addiction-like responses
• Some liked the experience (Harrisburg)
E-cheating
E-cheating
Bullying – Old School
• Physical – schoolyard, hallway, locker room, bathroom
• Verbal – rumors, taunting
• Written – notes, walls
Don’t share your locker combo!
Online Bullying – New School
www.stopcyberbullying.org
Don’t share your password!
• Supplements the “old fashioned” kind
• Available 24x7
• Victims won’t tell – don’t want access cut off
What to do…
Educate your kids– To respect others
– To take a stand
– To not respond to cyberbullies
Communicate– Be the trusted resource
No “catch-all” fix – but many resources
The ‘Net Never Forgets
• Anything posted remains for a long time
• Caching/Archiving
• Who else might view your blog, php, site?:– College admissions officials
– Job interviewers
Reputation Management
• Remove or untag pictures
• Ask friends to do the same
• Limit info on public profiles
• LinkedIn.com
• ClaimId.com/Naymz.com
• Blog
Reputation Management
• Get involved - generate good publicity
• Don’t get into online arguments (and if you do… drop it!)
• You may need professional help (technical… not the other kind)
Discussion?
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