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Cell phones, smart phones, tablets… FaceBook, Twitter, texting… the Internet and social networks are hardly new to our kids. New sites and features are being created all the time. New phones make these sites and services available to our kids anywhere, anytime. In this interactive talk we will discuss the basics of internet social networks, how our kids interact online, how they use mobile technology, and what we need to know to keep up.
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Teens 2.0Teens, Tech and What You Need To
KnowBarry Caplin District 196 Parent FairChief Information Security Officer Nov. 5,
2011Minnesota Department of Human Servicesbarry.caplin@state.mn.us, bc@bjb.org@bcaplin, +barrycaplin, *bcaplin
Slides at http://www.slideshare.net/bcaplinHandouts at http://www.bjb.org/stuff/talks/
• Please… answer questions!
Interactive
• Please… ask questions!
Topics
social networks portable devices/sexting geolocation disconnecting/e-grounding e-cheating cyber-bullying reputation management
Social Network
a connected set of users or organizations
Social Networks
• Over 800M users• > 2004 Internet• #1 site for time spent• #2 site for video sharing
Social networking usage:• Up 88% among users aged 55-64• age 65+ use up 100%• 47% of 50-64 year-old Internet users use social media• 26% of those over 65
Pew Internet & American Life Project April 2009 - May 2010
Facebook Demographics
• Microblogging
• 2nd biggest SNS >200M users (passed MySpace)
• Changed media paradigm
• But many kids don’t tweet
More…
•#3
•> 100M users
•Professional networking
MySpace
•Not Dead Yet!
•#4 and dropping
More…
Google Plus
•> 40M users
•Not big with teens
Diaspora
•Still in test
•Invite-only
These are two to watch
Time Teens Spend Online
Daily:
• 2 hrs 20 min online
• 1 hr 50 min on SNS
Rioworld study, July, 2010
Social Networks can help Teens
• Teens using SNS with friends, not strangers – UVA
• Kids/Teens online worlds/friendships resemble offline – Cal State LA
• "The digital world is creating new opportunities for youth to grapple with social norms, to explore interests, develop technical skills and experiment with new forms of self expression“ – Digital Youth Project
• children who can go to a parent with a problem are more willing to accept parental limits on their media use and less likely to seek online trouble – Cornell U
LA Times, May 2010
• Teens with depression or aggressive/delinquent behavior more likely to find trouble online – UVA
• Children more likely bullied or sexually propositioned by peers they know rather than by a stranger online – Harvard U Berkman Center for Internet and Society
• “it is largely the child, not the technology or even the time a kid spends using it, that seems to influence how safely he or she will navigate the digital world” – Developmental Psychology journal
LA Times, May 2010
On top of it
• 71% of teens/young adults changed their online profile privacy settings.
• 57% used search engines to see info about themselves.
• 47% deleted comments made by others.• 41% untagged photos.• 91% of teens use social networks to stay
in touch with people they know/see often, 82% for friends they rarely see.
Reputation Management and Social Media. Pew Internet & American Life Project, May, 2010
Generation M2, Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2010
Cell Phones
• They’re everywhere!
• Special plans for younger kids
• Calls, texting, pictures, video, games, apps, music, Internet…
• Internet access is truly mobile!
• Trickier to know what kids are doing
• Cell data services $$$
Cell Phones
Sexting
• Texts/attachments not private
• Currently considered child porn
• Tunkhannock, PA
Geolocation
The world knows
• Where you are
• Where you are not
Life without Facebook
• Doing without
• U of Maryland, 2010 – 24 hours (all tech)
• Harrisburg U, 2010 – 1 week (social media)
• E-grounding
• Disconnected, addiction-like responses
• Some liked the experience (Harrisburg)
E-cheating
E-cheating
Bullying – Old School
• Physical – schoolyard, hallway, locker room, bathroom
• Verbal – rumors, taunting
• Written – notes, walls
Don’t share your locker combo!
Online Bullying – New School
www.stopcyberbullying.org
Don’t share your password!
• Supplements the “old fashioned” kind
• Available 24x7
• Victims won’t tell – don’t want access cut off
What to do…
Educate your kids– To respect others
– To take a stand
– To not respond to cyberbullies
Communicate– Be the trusted resource
No “catch-all” fix – but many resources
The ‘Net Never Forgets
• Anything posted remains for a long time
• Caching/Archiving
• Who else might view your blog, php, site?:– College admissions officials
– Job interviewers
Reputation Management
• Remove or untag pictures
• Ask friends to do the same
• Limit info on public profiles
• LinkedIn.com
• ClaimId.com/Naymz.com
• Blog
Reputation Management
• Get involved - generate good publicity
• Don’t get into online arguments (and if you do… drop it!)
• You may need professional help (technical… not the other kind)
Discussion?
Slides at http://www.slideshare.net/bcaplinHandouts at http://www.bjb.org/stuff/talks/
barry.caplin@state.mn.us, bc@bjb.org@bcaplin, +barrycaplin, *bcaplin
about.me/barrycaplin, delicious.com/bcaplin
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