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Social Networking
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Social Networking

• Web has become teenagers virtual hangout
• Place to go online after school or at night and
  connect with their friends away from the parents.
• Hanging out - It is how youth get socialized
  into peer groups. Builds relationships and stay
  connected. Culture, fashion, music, and media.

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My parents actually know nothing of MySpace. If
they do, they dont know that I have it. I dont
want to share this with them because I want to
have my own privacy. Im sick of adults NEVER
trusting teens
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I keep in touch with my friends via MySpace
because I just moved away. Its more effective
than calling them.
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My parents look at it all the time to see who Im
actually talking to. Actually my dad does and
tells my mom. They read my stuff and look at
what my friends write. They have said to be
careful who I talk to.
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I dont know the difference between sarcasm and
anger because the Internet is so impersonal.
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Normally, you cant access it from my schools
computers. It is blocked under Tasteless or
Web Chat or something of that sort. I however,
can access the site, because I know way around my
schools firewall. But thats just me
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Helpful Definitions

• Blog - A user-generated website where entries are
  made in journal style and displayed in a reverse
  chronological order.
• Social Networking - Social networking is a
  phenomena defined by linking people to each other
  in some way.
• Chat Real-time text conversation between users
  in a chat room with no expectation of privacy.
• Instant Messages Private, real-time text
  conversation between two users in a chat room.

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Friending

• The act of accepting or being accepted by a new
  contact with the mutual intent of labeling one
  another friend.
• Most teens are quite particular about whom they
  will add and whom they will reject.
• The size of ones Friends List is also a major
  factor in determining ones popularity, both
  online and off.

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Social Networking Safety

• Dont forget that your profile and forums are
  public spaces.
• People arent always who they say the are. Be
  careful about adding strangers to your Friends
  List.
• Dont post anything that would embarrass you
  later.

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Why Students Instant Message

• Keep in touch with friends 92
• Make plans with friends 88
• Play Games with IM software 61
• Play a trick on someone 60
• Ask someone out 44
• Write something you wouldnt say in person 42
• Break up with someone 24

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Chat Room Acronyms

• ASL Age, Sex, Location
• BF - Boyfriend
• BFF Best Friend Forever
• BRB Be right back
• IDK I dont know
• LMIRL Lets meet in real life
• MOS Mom over shoulder
• PIR- Parents in Room
• LOL Laugh out Loud
• GTG Got To Go
• LV Love
• M or F Male or Female
• W / E - Whatever

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Symbols, Numbers, Emoticons

• 4AYN For All You Know
• 4RL? For Real?
• 4eva Forever
• 4GM Forgive ME
• F2T Free To Talk
• G - Giggle or Grin
• H - Hug
• 143 I Love You
• 411 Information or Gossip
• K - Kiss
• ?4U Question For You

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Cyber Bullying Harassment that takes place
during online interactions.

• Harassment Repeatedly sending a person
  offensive messages.
• Impersonation Pretending to be someone else and
  sending or posting material that makes that
  person look bad or places that person in
  potential danger.
• Outing and trickery Sending or posting material
  about a person that contains sensitive, private,
  or embarrassing information.

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Dealing with Cyber Bullying

• Express the anger in private or at home just
  dont let the bully or bullies know that theyve
  hurt you or made you angry.
• Ignore, ignore, ignore. Doing so will
  communicate to the bully that you just dont
  care. Sooner or later, the bully will get bored
  and move on.
• Walk tall and proud at school and participate in
  class more than ever. Demonstrate that you are
  unfazed by the attacks.
• Feel sympathy for your bully. They are probably
  a jealous or unhappy person
• Talk about it. Encourage your child or student
  to tell you, teachers, school counselors, and
  administrators.

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Positive Uses of Social Networking

• del.icio.us (http//del.icio.us/) is a great tool
  for collecting and publishing resource lists.

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Positive Uses of Social Networking

• Blogging - Teens have been a major force behind
  the success of blogging software.
• Blogs give teens an audience, a way to keep up
  with friends, opportunities for feedback, and a
  means to connect to others.
• Blogs in the Classroom Example

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Positive Uses of Social Networking

• It can be done in a library.
• Is banning the answer?
• How effective are libraries going to be to
  empower teens in making good online choices if
  the tools to do so can't be used, accessed, or
  played with in a library?

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Positive Uses of Social Networking

• Teen Second Life
• Teens can own land, run their own business,
  design clothes, bring their favorite story scene
  to life through build and design skills, and
  learn about social issues.
• Epals
• Facebook
• Flickr
• Technorati

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Positive Uses of Social Networking

• YouTube
• Where teens can feel empowered by publishing work
  they've done and seeing what their peers can do.
• A resource that highlights constructive use of
  time through video creation.
• An outlet for creative expression.
• A place to learn, in entertaining and creative
  ways, how libraries work.

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Positive Uses of Social Networking

• Youth Participation
• Teens can setup and maintain the library's
  MySpace space. As a part of the process teens
  would have to figure out who is responsible for
  what aspects of the space, what to include on the
  space, and how to add and respond to friends and
  comments.
• Teens maintain a library blog of reviews, news,
  etc. Teens who work on the project would have to
  figure out what to write about on the blog, how
  often to post, setup a schedule of posts, and
  make sure the blog was updated on a regular
  basis.

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Be Safe, Learn, and Have Fun!!