Social NetworkingGaming with friends and people all

over the globeCreating/posting and watching

videos on YouTubeDownloading musicTweetingChat RoomsVisiting WikisGoogeling virtually ANY subject

What is it??

According to Wikipedia….

If Facebook were a country…

It would be the 3rd largest in the world!

More than 500 million users with 250,000+ new registrations…

Everyday!

Over 4 billion messages are sent via Facebook

EVERY DAY (More than Yahoo, Hotmail or Google!)

There are over 1.7 billion images and 60+ million new videos uploaded

EVERY WEEK The number one photo sharing

application on the Web!

50percent of all users log in on any given day and this group spends over 700 minutes on Facebook each month

The average user has over 130 friends

Users access FaceBook an average of 20 minutes per day – Everyday!

The fastest growing demographic of users on Facebook is the 35 – 54 age group (0-17 is 2nd)

Sexual Predators Cyber Bullying Cyber Stalking Identity Theft: Not just financial! Addiction/Withdrawl Employment

hazard/Self-Image & Reputation Damage Exposure to Inappropriate Content: Example Promotes Underage Drinking and other Risky

Behavior (including “sexting”) Lack of Privacy Financial Issues

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Associated Press-MTV poll found that about one-quarter of teenagers have "sexted" — shared sexually explicit photos, videos and chat by cell phone or online.

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Be aware of your child’s online activities…this is a DAILY endeavor!

TALK to your children about what information to put online and more importantly what NOT to put online

Go online with your child and have them show you the sites they visit most often

Establish your own profile – FRIEND your child Keep the computer in a central location: never

in a bedroom or behind closed doors Use parental controls or blocking software –

view url history Check your child’s accounts and do this often!

Don’t forget about the itouch, smartphone and PSP!

Become an expert on privacy settings Stay on top of news stories and what is happening

on the web Establish guidelines and limits on when your child

can be on the web and use cell phones Explain the consequences Communicate with your children often and be

aware of what’s going on in their lives! Keep their passwords and YOURS private Remember – What you post online is there

FOREVER

SC Department of Education Internet Safety Standards: http://ed.sc.gov/agency/Standards-and-Learning/Academic-Standards/InternetSafetyStandards.html

Digital Citizenship

Help Center: http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=937

Safety for Parents: http://www.facebook.com/help/?safety=parents

Safety for Teens: http://www.facebook.com/help/?safety=teens

Safety for Educators: http://www.facebook.com/help/?safety=educators

Internet Safety Sites: 

Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use: http://www.csriu.org/  Wired Safety: http://www.wiredsafety.org/ Net Alert: http://www.netalert.net.au  i-Safe: http://www.isafe.org ID the Creep: http://wwwlidthecreep.com  NetSmartz: http://www.netsmartz.org PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/safe/ Safe Kids: http://www.safekids.com/child_safety.htm FBI: http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm Safeteens: http://www.safeteens.com/safeteens.htm NetWise: http://www.getnetwise.org/ KidsHealth:

http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/net_safety.html

A Thin Line: http://www.athinline.org/ Beatbullying.org: http://www.beatbullying.org/ Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP):

http://www.ceop.police.uk/ Childnet-int.org: http://childnet-int.org/ Commonsense.org : http://www.commonsensemedia.org/ ConnectSafely.org: http://www.connectsafely.org/ Cyberbullying Research Center: http://www.cyberbullying.us/ FOSI.org: http://www.fosi.org/ OnguardOnline.gov: http://www.onguardonline.gov/ TRUSTe.org: http://www.truste.com/ UK Council for Child Internet Safety:

http://clickcleverclicksafe.direct.gov.uk/index.html WebWiseKids.org: http://www.webwisekids.org/ STOP Cyberbullying: http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/index2.html Teen Angels: http://teenangels.org/ Wired Kids: http://wiredkids.org/