College Student and Social Networking Websites:

Could They Cost You Your Future?

Crissy Field

Sarita Cole

Bobbi Covell

Maryanne Hull

• How do people use the Internet to communicate?

• What is Facebook? Twitter?

• How are social networking sites viewed by professors, law enforcement, and potential employers?

• Opens up world of broadcast and publishing

• Changing tradition concepts of these fields

• Blogs

• Hacker Ethic:

– Four Principles

• 1) “Access to computers-and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works-should be unlimited and total.”

• 2) “All information wants to be free.”

• 3) “Mistrust authority– promote decentralization”

• 4) “You should be judged by your skills and not by “bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.”

• No longer have to interact face to face

• Started in February 2004

• How it grew to the next level

• Where are the creators now

• Second largest social network

• Primary Focus

• Over 8 million users

• Originally called “thefacebook”

• How twitter began

• Who is credited for the creation of twitter

• First official tweet on March 21st, 2006

• What twitter was used for

• When they formed the actual twitter website

• When twitter branched off into its own company

• What is twitter

• What are “tweets”

• CBS News

- Tim DeMello from internet company “Ziggs” searches online profiles during the hiring process.

- “online footprint”

- Incriminating information could be attached to you the rest of your career.

• Oregon Business Report

- June 2009 CareerBuilder survey

- 45% use

- 35% didn’t hire

Professors

• The Chronicle of Higher Education

- makes it “harder for students to get away with lies about dead grandparents”

• University of Louisville

- Professors are in danger too

Law Enforcement

• JSOnline

- LaChapelle

- Using all information

• University of Illinois

- Two students caught urinating in public

• Professional hackers

• Analyze each Facebook page that we present to you

• Ask yourselves….

- Whats good?

- Whats bad?

- What could this person change?

Conclusion

• NOTHING on the internet is private

• Could cost you your reputation, grades, jobs, and more…

• Is anyone going to change???