Facebook: Beyond Friends, Family and FarmVille

Selena Garrison, Technology Integration

Fall Mountain Regional School District

Welcome to the Real Facebook

Christa McAuliffe Technology ConferenceDecember 2, 2010

• More than 500 million active users

• More than 6 billion minutes are spent on ch day.

• More than 30 billion pieces of content are shared each month.

• People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook

Facebook Is Too Big To Ignore

• Is connected to 80 pages, groups and events

• Has 130 friends

• Creates 90 pieces of content each month

• Spends over 55 minutes on Facebook every day.

The Average Facebook User ….

• More than 70 translations available

• 70% of Facebook users live outside of the U.S.

• 26.22% of the world’s population currently use Facebook.

• If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest country in the world.

Facebook Is Global

Top Facebook Countries

Facebook Has Apps

• More than 550,000 active applications

• More than 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users

• is still the #1 game.

• 200 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile devices.

• Mobile device users are twice as active on Facebook than non-mobile users.

• There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products

Facebook Is Mobile

• Over 80% of businesses are using Facebook

• There are over 1.5 million local businesses with Facebook pages.

Facebook Is Business

http://facebookflow.com/amazing-facebook-statistics/

Facebook Is Growing

• Over 1,700 employees

• Estimated value of $50 billion, exceeding eBay’s $39.4 billion

• Only two web companies are worth more than Facebook: Amazon, at $74.4 billion and Google, at $192.9 billion.

http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-may-have-reached-all-time-high-value-of-50-billion-2010-11

• More than 20 million people become fans of Facebook fan pages every single day.

• Facebook fan pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans.

• Over 3 million active Facebook fan pages.

Facebook Is Fanatical

How Facebook Makes Sense for Education

• Authentic writing • Parent communication• Event invitations • Showcasing classroom activities

Before you proceed… you must ask…

Is Facebook an educational tool?

Basic Facebook Facts

• Minimum age for an account is 13!

• Key information- birth date and gender

• The site is “free”

• Fueled on marketing and applications

Facebook Is An ‘Adult’ World

It’s not what you do…

… it’s what you are exposed to.

Pause… before proceeding

Facebook:Beyond Friends, Family and FarmVille

Here is where you can find

… our students and also the following…

Interesting Facebook Email

A friend received an email with the subject line of “Dead.”

… with no message

A Convicted Murderer

With his victim listed as one of his friends and we have 3 friends in common

Mulberry man pleads guilty to 1st degree murder

Ready to Play? The World of Facebook Games

Our students are definitely playing…

Facebook is now challenging Xbox and Wii for gaming

http://www.zynga.com/about/numbers.php

Food For Thought

The Hottest New Game

Rise through the ranks of the mafia and take over the city in this next gen crime game!

Build up your hood, do jobs, andfight other players!

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/crimecity?v=info

How Sexy Is Your Name?

http://apps.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=133735099988606

Playboy Party

Live the Playboy lifestyle, with all the glitz, glamour and luxury that comes with it.

Bar World

On Facebook, you should…• Watch where you go• Watch what you do• Be aware of how others might respond to you

After seeing all of this, are you still willing to proceed?

Customizing Facebook

Settings to help make Facebook “safer”

*Look for Links, Locks, and Lead

Home Page or “Wall” in Most Recent View

Home Page or “Wall” in Top News View

Viewing Requests from Your Home Page

Blocking an Application Invitation

Hiding Annoying Applications from Appearing on Your Home Page

Creating a Friends List

Friends lists help you to easily choose who sees what

Go to Account > Edit Friends

Steps to Creating a Friends List

Above your friends list, click on “Create New List”

Enter a list name, select friends, and click “Create List”

Your new list will now be on the left side

Customize Your Updates: Choose Who Sees What

Your friends lists will now be very useful

Choose names or a friends’ list

Does everyone need to know what’s on your mind?

Account Settings

Do you really needmore email?

Check All Privacy Settings

How Others Will See You

What You Share About Yourself

Every photo album has its own settings. Check all photos. Don’t assume that they’re safe.

Uncheck this box!

Choose Custom Settings When Possible

Check All Applications

Delete all applications that you don’t you use!

Control What Your Friends Share to Apps

I uncheck every box

Instant Personalization Is Too Personal

You have to opt out! Uncheck this box.

Do You Want To Be Googled?

Uncheck this box if you don’t want to be found by a Google search

Hate Ads?• Block them!

• Get an ad-blocking add-on or extension

Chrome- https://chrome.google.com/extensions?hl=en-US

Safari- https://extensions.apple.com/

Firefox- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Final Considerations• Does it have to be Facebook?• For young kids, there is TogetherVille• For classes, there is Edmodo or Moodle• Consider a second Facebook account- keep

your worlds separated

If you want to use Facebook, here is an interesting classroom example.