PowerPoint Presentation Do You Know Where You Children Are

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• How does Facebook work?
• Cyberbullying
• Problematic Scenarios
• What Should Parents Do

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How Does Facebook Work?

• Facebook is a social networking website. All
  the content is social. The users construct the
  content.
• It was originally designed by university students
  for university students as a campus chat group
  with personal web sites attached.
• A Whos who and whats when? reference.

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Wikipedias Facebook Spread

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
• (desktop)

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How Does Facebook Work?

• Click and Sign up!
• Sign up page

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How Do You Work Facebook?

• Join a social network (association of people)
• Make personal profile page
• Invite and confirm friends
• Communicate with those friends via private mail
• Communicate with friends and others in the
  network via public Fun Wall or Super Wall
• Add APPS (applications)
• Upload Photos
• Plan, publicize and join Events
• Create Groups

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Online Presence

• Facebook can be set to Private or Friends
  Only or Public in which case everyone in the
  users network can see the site.

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Facebook APPs

• A Facebook application runs on the
  programmer/owners server. They have to set up a
  web server for it.
• All interaction is done via Facebook.com.
• When a user runs this application, Facebook will
  talk to your server. So in other words
• User runs application by hitting a URL on
  Facebook.
• Facebook passes off the request to your server,
  and sends some extra flair along
• Owners server responds with text, beautiful text
  
• Facebook renders the text back to the user
• So a Facebook application is almost like a proxy.
  If the application lets you do 3 things, then
  Facebook simply acts as a go-between for the user
  and the application.

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So What's the Problem?
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CYPERBULLYING

• Of the 34 of Canadian students in Grades 7 to 11
  who report being bullied, 27 say they were
  harassed over the Internet.
• (thats 27 of 34)

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CYPERBULLYING

• Some students reported disguising their identity
  online specifically so they could be mean and
  not get caught.

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CYPERBULLYING

• People say things online that they would never
  say face-to-face because they feel removed from
  the action and the person at the receiving end.

www.bbc.org
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CYPERBULLYING

• An increasing number of kids are being bullied by
  text messages through their cell phones.

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CYPERBULLYING

• Example Students used a camera-enabled cell
  phone to take a photo of an overweight classmate
  in the shower after gym. The picture was
  distributed within minutes.

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CYPERBULLYING

• 
  FACEBOOK FACEOFF
• University tutors are finding themselves the
  subject of high-tech harassment.
• "The problem is that the site institutionalizes
  gossip," says Dr Helen Smith, a tutor at the
  University of York. "It makes permanent all the
  things that usually people would chat about in
  the pub."
• In particular, the discussion boards of
  Facebook's many "groups" provide an unregulated
  platform for disgruntled students to publish
  whatever they like.
• Jonathan BrayTuesday November 7, 2006The
  Guardian

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Awareness Campaigns
CYPERBULLYING SOLUTIONS
Megan In the Kitchen
http//www.bullying.org
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• Where complaints about nudity or pornography, or
  harassment or unwelcome contact are made by
  independent email to abuse_at_facebook.com, Facebook
  will acknowledge receipt of your complaint and
  begin addressing your complaint within 24 hours
  of receipt.
• Facebook will report back to you within 72 hours
  of receiving your email complaint to inform you
  of the steps Facebook has taken to address the
  complaint.

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http//www.bewebaware.ca/english/safety_tips_14_17
.aspx
Students Often Dont Realize that. . .

• Anything posted or uploaded to a site leaves
  the users control.
• Uploaded photos, videos or voice
• Emails
• Facebook wall and superwall messages

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• Everything a person does on a computer is
  retrievable even if the links are not visible
  at the user level and even if the history is
  cleared.

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SCENARIO
In one University of Dayton survey of employers,
40 percent of respondents said they'd consider
Facebook data when making hiring decisions. So
while social- network lies might not immediately
cost you a job, they could come back to haunt
you. "We don't know how long the information you
post today will remain on the Web," says Susan
Barnes, associate director of the Lab for Social
Computing at the Rochester Institute of
Technology. "Once information is out there, it's
really difficult to erase." Imagine how bummed
you'll be if, 15 years hence, you get passed over
for a job because someone unearths a fudged
profile from 2007 (linked to those pictures from
Mardi Gras where you're, let's say,
underdressed).
http//www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-10
/st_kia
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Privacy Issues
On Facebook, you can be free to be who you want
to be, as long as you don't mind being bombarded
by adverts for the world's biggest brands. As
with PayPal, national boundaries are a thing of
the past. Tom Hodgkinson The Guardian, Monday
January 14 2008
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Privacy Issues

• Facebook downloads tracking cookies onto your
  computer to collect data on their demographic. It
  was recently revealed that some of the tracking
  devices Facebook is using are at work, even when
  you are logged out of Facebook. This helps them
  sell and target advertising.

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Privacy Issues

• This is how your home computer and everything
  you do on it - feeds into the internet!

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Privacy Issues Safety

• Control mechanisms exist on Facebook
• Set profile to private
• Facebook users can block other users erasing
  their profile from the view of blocked people

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PEEL REGIONAL POLICE

• Website
• Cyberproofing

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• The Peel police remind families to warn their
  youngsters not to post information about the
  familys holidays on their facebooks.
• Many families return to find their homes broken
  into because a child, in the excitement, let drop
  that the family was going on holiday.

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• http//www.cybertip.ca

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Privacy Issues Safety

• Users should resist posting
• Residence information
• School name
• First and last name,
• Hang outs meeting times or places.

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What can Parents Do to Protect their Children
Online?

• Keep the dialogue open
• Know your childrens friends
• Keep the computer that has internet on it in the
  homes family spaces, with the screen in full
  view

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What can Parents Do to Protect their Children
Online?

• If youre excited and positive theyre more
  likely to share. Ask them to show you what they
  do on the computer.
• Remind your children if you dont want me to see
  (or you teacher, principals, religious leaders,
  or any of your friends) dont put it online.

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So Why Facebook?
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Whats Good About Facebook?

• Harness the Energy
• Jack Layton (desktop)
• Stephen Harper
• Rick Mercer
• David Suzuki (desktop)
• Hillary Clinton (desktop)
• Barack Obama

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Pretty Good Company, huh?
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What do kids DO on Facebook?Best case scenario

• Socialize communicate with friends bringing
  the real world online
• Invent themselves - Self-actualize construct
  self image within the context of their world
• Share video streams and music links engage in
  the arts at various levels low cost
• Search and contribute to socio-cultural
  information - broaden horizons and deepen
  understanding of the real world around them
• Engage in activism politicize their world
• Disabilites disappear

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Social network sites (SNSs) such as such as
Friendster, CyWorld, and MySpace allow
individuals to present themselves, articulate
their social networks, and establish or maintain
connections with others. These sites can be
oriented towards work-related contexts (e.g.,
LinkedIn.com), romantic relationship initiation
(the original goal of Friendster.com), connecting
those with shared interests such as music or
politics (e.g., MySpace.com), or the college
student population (the original incarnation of
Facebook.com). Participants may use the sites to
interact with people they already know offline or
to meet new people. The online social network
application analyzed in this article, Facebook,
enables its users to present themselves in an
online profile, accumulate "friends" who can post
comments on each other's pages, and view each
other's profiles. Facebook members can also join
virtual groups based on common interests, see
what classes they have in common, and learn each
others' hobbies, interests, musical tastes, and
romantic relationship status through the
profiles.
From thesis Nicole B. EllisonCharles
SteinfieldCliff LampeDepartment of
Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media
Michigan State University
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Last Words

• Facebook epitomizes the power of the internet
• Connecting people
• Webbing business and advertising
• Freedom of information
• Builds cultural contexts
• Democratic voice
• Caution warranted (especially where young people
  are concerned)

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