Social Networking

and Youby Pam Jensen Instructor and the

Information Security Students at

Social Networking The

New Way to Keep in Touch

• What is Social Networking?

• How to use Social Networking?

• What are the dangers?

• How can we protect ourselves?

What is Social

Networking?

• Web based services, such as:

• Chat, messaging, email, video, filesharing, blogging, and personalweb pages.

• Social networking websites areused by millions of peopleeveryday

• Social networking is a part ofeveryday life.

Social Network

Advantages

• Pros:

• These sites have millions of

members

• Stay in touch with friends

• Reconnect with old friends

• Meet and make new friends

• Keep up with classes using

external applications such as

“Courses”.

Social Network

Advantages

• Families and friends can post

pictures and keep in touch

• Advertise your business for little or

no cost with a web page

• Use for centralized updates when

planning events such as weddings

or graduation

• Use to honor someone who has died

Social Network

Challenges

• Cons• What’s on the Web, Stays on the

web…FOREVER!!!

• Anyone can spoof your identity andcreate a fake facebook profile

• If you post addresses & phonenumbers in groups or mini-feeds,anyone can see them.

The Social World of the

Internet

• According to Pew Internet:

• 64% of online teenagers ages 12to 17 engage in content creation

• Girls dominate content creation

• 66% Believe their profile is notvisible to everyone

• 48% Visit social networking sitesdaily.

Teens Surveyed on Social

Network

• Girls 15-17 are more likely touse social networking sites

• 91% use sites to keep in touchwith friends they see regularly

• 85% of those surveyed useMySpace while only 7% useFacebook

Pew, Social Networking Websites and Teens an Overview,January 2007

Facebook

• Started as a social networking

site for college students

• Users must be members of one of

30,000+ recognized schools,

colleges, universities,

organizations, and companies

• Facebook is the 7th most

trafficked site in the U.S.

Facebook Facts

• Terms of use:• By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically

grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right togrant, to the Company an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive,transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right tosublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display,reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) and distributesuch User Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, orotherwise, on or in connection with the Site or the promotionthereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into otherworks, such User Content, and to grant and authorize sublicensesof the foregoing.

• Facebook can take all of the info youhave posted onto Facebook, whetherabout yourself or your friends, anduse that information as it wishes toforever

The Reality

• Any thing that you post online is nolonger yours it belongs to the site

• Search engines such as Google canlink people to the content on yourpage – without your knowledge orconsent

• Information posted to a socialnetworking site can be retainedforever!!

facebook

Who is Kevin Colvin?

He called in sick to

work one day and

this is what his boss

say the next day!

Meet Kevin Colvin!!!

The Facts

• An adware program invites users to find outwho has a secret crush on them.

• Users must invite five other Facebook friendsto install the same adware program before theirmystery admirer is revealed.

• Instead of revealing their secret crush they geta website that downloads applications tocontinuously display pop-up advertising

What you Post can get

you in trouble

• The name you choose can tellpeople more about you than youwant them to know

• Hotstuff 90

• Thunderhawk26

• Pictures can be posted online

• Teens in Eden Prairie were caughtdrinking at a party and banned fromseveral sports

• A*******

• Networks:Montevideo Senior HighSchool '08

• Sex:Female

• Interested In:MenLookingFor:Friendship

• Birthday: January 6, 1990

• Hometown:Montevideo, MN

• Political Views:Moderate

• Religious Views:Christian - Lutheran

Sex is out there

• One in 3 teens online is exposedto sexually explicit material

• One in 7 was solicited online

• MySpace was investigated forallowing sex offenders to use thesite

• They are now attempting to policeusers

MySpace was Sued by

Parents

District Judge Sam Sparks saidthat MySpace had “no duty toprotect” a minor from sexualpredators “nor institutereasonable safety measures onits Web site. If anyone had aduty to protect [the minor] itwas her parents, not MySpace.”

Meeting an Online

Friend

• Have them send you their phone

number and do a search on the

name and number

• Report any suspicious activity

to law enforcement

• Tell your parents, meet in a

public place and DO NOT GO

ALONE!!!

Cyber Bullying

• Unwanted email, instant

messages, postings to a social

networking site

• Most online teens have received

unwanted messages

• They are not harmless and can

destroy careers, relationships,

even lives

Cyber Bullying

• 90% of middle school students have had

their feelings hurt online

• 75% say they have visited a Web site

bashing another student

• 40% have had their password stolen and

been locked out of own account

Source: wiredsafety.org

Cyber Bullying

• Megan Meier hanged herself after being

the victim of a cruel hoax. A fight with

her best friend had the best friend's

mom seek revenge. They set up a site on

My Space, invented a fake boy, and had

him start a relationship with Megan. It

cost her life.

Local Stories

• A girl spoofed her professor’s identity,

and created a facebook page with his

identity.

• A Willmar man faces charges of Internet

solicitation charges: Appleton 14 year-

old was the target (January 2008)

• Do you have a story to share?

What Teens Can Do

• Do not post information that

identifies you, your phone, school,

hometown, etc – your friends

already know this information

• Keep your space private and do not

let friends of friends view your site

• Do periodic Internet searches to see

what is out there about you

What Teens Can Do

• Do NOT get together with an online

friend until you verify their background

• Meet only in public places

• Bring a friend or two with you

• Tell your parents

• Share your site with your parents

• If you do not want to show your parents

then it should not be on your site

• Your parents will eventually find out

Using Social Networking

in the Classroom

• Email

• Assign students to build a site

and ask them to make you a

friend

• Use the Course Feature to

update Classes

• Use cell phones for contact and

group messages

How do you use Social

Networking in Your Classes