By Marty Daniel – mdaniel@houstonisd.orghttp://plaidcircuitry.com©2011

Your digital reputationorWhy digital marks are hard to erase

How are you connected?

The Internet never forgets

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/fashion/03reputation.html

Any picture you post or comment you make lives in a virtual afterlife etched into archives, algorithms and a web of hyperlinks.

81% of children under the age of two currently have some form of online presence —

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101006006722/en/Digital-Birth-Online-World

Watch a video 57%

Use SNS 73%

Instant messaging

67%

Play online games

78%

Read blogs 49%

Visit a virtual world

8%

93% of teens 12-

17 use the

Internet regularly

to …

69% have updated their status on social networking sites to include their physical location

51% say they’ve given out personal information online to someone they don’t know in the offline world ◦43% shared their first name◦24% shared their email address◦8% shared a personal photo of themselves◦12% shared cell phone number

28% chat with people they don’t know in the offline world

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/McAfee-Secret-Teen-Lives-2010-06-22.pdf

Teens

COPPA or the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires U.S.-based websites that collect personal information from people under the age of 13 to obtain permission from parents or guardians before asking for such data

COPPA

http://www.coppa.org/

CIPA or The Children’s Internet Protection Act requires that schools and libraries who receive E-rate discounts on technology must block or filter Internet access to pictures that are:

(a) obscene,

(b) child pornography, or

(c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors)

CIPA

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/cipa.html

Talk to your teen:•What are the coolest or newest websites?•Will you show me your favorite sites?•How do you know this friend?•Where did they find this photo?

Friend your teen on Facebook (but please Mom, no embarrassing baby pics or comments ;-)Encourage you teen to become creative on the Internet with Flickr, Wikis, Blogs, etc.Have an unplugged dinner at least once a week.

What’s a parent to do?

Disconnect to connect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ZrK2NryuQ&feature=player_embedded

For more information

• Facebook: • http://www.facebookforparents.org/• http://www.facebook.com/help/?safety#!/help/?safety=parents • http://www.helium.com/debates/79734-should-parents-have-teens-myspace-an

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• To Be or Not To Be ….. http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/08/25/to-be-or-not-to-be-my-kids-friend-on-facebook/

• http://www.netsmartz.org/Parents

Images:eraser - http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/clip/eraser.html

Toddler - http://www.flickr.com/photos/paleontour/3064853351/sizes/m/