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Chatting and Messaging: Overly Connected in a Digital World. Dr. Charles D. Knutson Brigham Young University www.charlesknutson.net. Chatting and messaging. Any mechanism that allows individuals to communicate remotely in real-time Cell phones, Internet, Web Primarily textual - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Chatting and Messaging:Overly Connected in a

Digital World

Dr. Charles D. Knutson

Brigham Young University

www.charlesknutson.net

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Chatting and messaging

Any mechanism that allows individuals to communicate remotely in real-timeCell phones, Internet, Web

Primarily textualMay include voice and videoMay include attachments

Images, etc.

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Chatting and messaging

Chat roomsWebsite, hosted

Instant messagingInternet, computer

Voice and video chatText messaging

Cell phoneSextingDriving safety

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Learning the shorthand

95 percent of parents and guardians did not understand much of the language that teens use in chat rooms

28% of online teens say they use code words on a daily basis to hide online conversations from their parents

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Learning the shorthand

143 "I love you"AATK "always at the keyboard"A/S/L? "age, sex, location"BRB "be right back"EMA "what is your email

address?"FWIW "for what it's worth"G2G "got to go" IOW "in other words"

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Learning the shorthand

JK "just kidding"LOL "laughing out loud"MSG "message"NP "nosy parents," "no problem"OMG "oh my gosh"OTOH "on the other hand"P911 "my parents are coming!"PA "parent alert"

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Learning the shorthand

PAL "parents are listening"PANB "parents are nearby"PAW "parents are watching"PIR "parent in room"POS "parent over shoulder"ROTFL"rolling on the floor laughing"SNERT"snot-nosed egotistical rude

teenager"

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Learning the shorthand

TAW "teachers are watching"TTFN "ta ta for now"WTF "what the [fetch]?"WWJD "what would Jesus do?"WWSD "what would Satan do?"

http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php

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Emoticons

"Emotion Icons"Used because text lacks emotion

Here comes your brief tutorial…

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Emoticons

Smiley

Wink

Laughing

Skeptical

Surprised

Tongue

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Chat rooms

Public chat roomsHosted on websites

Also in online role-playing gamesBroad diversity of interests

Generally focused on some topicMany with inappropriate focus!

Many people all typing messages at the same time

Can meet and then go to private chat room

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Chat rooms - Example

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Text chatEveryone talking

at the same timeConfusing to follow

threads Individuals can

move to private chat rooms

Predators troll here

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Chat rooms

You often don't really know who you're dealing with…

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Chat rooms

Also voice and video chat roomsEveryone on their own webcamVisually see others in the chat room

Higher risks:Predators trollingInappropriate contentInappropriate behaviorUnhealthy or inappropriate relationships

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Chat rooms - Example

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Video chat

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Parenting tips

Dr. K sez: Chat rooms are absolutely not recommended!Haven't yet found any positive valueFor teens or for adults

Major trolling place for predatorsSignificant risks for all agesStudies estimate nearly 100% of all

chat room regulars have been sexually solicited at least once

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Parenting tips

Remember:The most dangerous places on the

Internet are where you make new "friends" that you don't already know in the real world

That is almost exclusively what chat rooms are about

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Instant messaging

Direct chattingTypically one-on-oneCan also conference multiple people

Typically typing messagesMay include video or voice

capability

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Instant messaging

Often standalone program/protocolMicrosoft MessengerAOL Instant MessengerYahoo! Messenger

May be part of some other serviceGoogle Gtalk

May be part of a social networkFacebookMySpace

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Instant messaging

So how is this different from a web-hosted chat room?Can only talk to friends in your contact

listOr friends on social network

Protection via pre-selection of friendsIt's already a private chat room

But with actual friendsNot a place to meet people!

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Parenting tips

Tremendously valuable for brief asynchronous communicationFriend sends a message

Spouse, kids, business associatesRespond when you have timeTime slice responses with other work on

your computerLess of a distraction from work flowMultiple messaging interactions at the

same time

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Parenting concerns

75% of teens use Instant Messaging compared to 42% of adults

27% of teens report that they have talked online about sex with someone they have never met in person

40% of online sexual solicitations of youth begin with an Instant Message

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Voice and video chat

Most instant messaging services support voice and video chat

Tremendously valuable between people that you knowLong distance video chat with familyShow your grandparents in Europe the

new babyShare activities long distance

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Video chat - Example

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Parenting tips

Don't add strangers to your Instant Messaging contactsSame with social networking!

Potentially huge time wasterEspecially for teens

Check history on chat program if possibleMore difficult if part of online service

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Text messaging Instant messaging via cell phoneFriends and contacts via phone

numbers that you knowVery valuable for brief communicationTeens tend to obsess and text

incessantlyVery unhealthy emotionally and spirituallyDon't have to access inappropriate material

to lose the Spirit and distance from family

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Text messaging

Usage has doubled in the last year2.5 billion text messages are sent

each day in the United States138 million Americans have sent a

text message in the past three months

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Text messaging

82% of adults 18-24 are avid text message users

72% of the 25-49 age group use text messages

42% of teenagers said they could text message blindfolded!

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Text messaging

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Sexting

Significant concern among the youthTaking nude or semi-nude pictures

via cell phone cameras and sending them to each other via text messaging

Current teen epidemic

Discussed in greater detail in "Cell Phone Safety" class…

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Texting and driving

Huge danger from texting and driving at the same time

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Texting and driving

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Parenting tips

Text your teen...Reach out to teens on their turf

Look for positive uses for textingShopping list at the storeMessage in a meeting when you can't

take a phone callQuick news without the interruption of a

phone call

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Parenting tips

68% of parents communicate with their kids by text message

56% of teens, ages 13-19, say that they communicate more often with their parents since they began text messaging

53% of teens that text think their relationship with their parents has improved because of text messaging51% of parents agree

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Parenting tips

Recognize some significant valueNews of Pres. Hinckley's death spread

among the youth of the Church via text messagingLiterally within minutes of his passingAnd the idea of wearing Sunday best to

school the next day

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Parenting tips

Children should not have unfettered access to cell phones!

Potentially unhealthy fixation with texting friendsMay build emotional distance from

familyUnhealthy attachment with friendsUnhealthy attachment to "friends" that

they met via text messaging, email, or chat room

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Parenting tips

Messaging your friends while talking to people in the same room as you is RUDEPick one conversation!Risk of alienating teen, so deal with this

tactfully and carefullyLike take out your phone and text him

while physically in the same roomCan we talk in person? :)

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Questions?

Internet Safety Podcastwww.internetsafetypodcast.com

Internet Safety Wikiwiki.internetsafetypodcast.com

Dr. Charles Knutson

[email protected]

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