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Social media– the good, the bad and the ugly
Casey’s Hotel,Baltimore, Thursday 2 May.
Social media
Facebook exodusThe reasons why people leave FB
Irish cyberbullying highest in EU
Watch your space
Saferinternet.org has a good list of Irish resourcesAmanda Todd
‘People are perhaps naive about their actions. You can no longer do something stupid and hope nobody notices, it WILL be on Facebook! And it might be funny now but 10 years later maybe not.’
snapchat‘Everything is permanent on the internet. Everything you do leaves an indelible mark.’ Even if you don’t screen grab or ‘shoot the message’ with a different device, there are ways to recover it. And while the
recipient can possibly retrieve or recall the ‘self-destructing’ message, the sender cannot. ‘Once you hit send, you have lost control of that image forever. You cannot recall it. You cannot ask for it
back.’ Jake DeWoskin, an IT Security Expert with KDV Technology.
. . . the appeal of Snapchat ‘You get the feeling at least that you’re leaving less of a digital footprint’
Cyber-bullyingFacebook featured in almost 46pc of all press relating to social media and cyberbullying during a 20-day
evaluation period.
Twitter was the second most likely social media channel to be mentioned in connection with cyberbullying and was referenced in 33pc of all related press coverage.
A total of 286 articles relating to cyberbullying were published by Irish newspapers over the 20-day period.
The Intersection of Digital and Media Literacy
Irish Medical Journal Press Release Study participants primarily accessed the Internet using a shared computer in the
home. Despite this, only 2% of these children said that they were supervised while using the Internet. 28% of the children surveyed said that their parents
placed limitations on their usage. Of note however, 49% of these also had access on their mobile phones, which was consistent with the overall rate of mobile
access (50%). This data suggests that a substantial proportion of children are not supervised while using the internet and that parental limitation on use is minimal.
New threat to teens
At the forefront of the problem is the issue of using secure passwords. While no password can ever be 100 percent secure, annual surveys reveal that far too
many users rely on simplistic names, dates, anniversaries and even plain dictionary words, like "password", and strings of numbers "123456" as their passwords because it is easier to remember. This, of course, provides a false
sense of security when accessing some sites in which a simple brute-force attack
on logins would quickly and easily expose the weakness in such passwords.
Teenage password security
Yvette Vickers: One minute newsMy tram experience
Emma West trialNora Creamer article in The Journal
104 year lies on FacebookThe (good) magic washing machineSherry TurkleConnected but alone?
Sunil TripathiNew York Times notice
Removing one’s digital trace:The right to be forgotten
The last word