Welcome to the Southwest Church of Christ 1st Annual Internet Safety Conference

Overview

• Texting: Using It Wisely• Social Networking: Facebook, MySpace,

Twitter and YouTube• General Internet Safety: Protecting Your Kids• Pornography: It’s EVERYWHERE

LUNCHTIME!

TextingUsing It Wisely

Texting is DANGEROUS

• On July 11, a teen named Alexa Longeuira fell into an open manhole while texting.

• The only casualty: her embarrassment and her left shoe.

Texting While Driving Really Is Dangerous

• This isn’t exactly breaking news• Statistics show texting while driving increases

the risk of an accident by 23-times!• The average person looks at a text on their

phone for 4.5 seconds – that’s long enough to travel 100 yards at 55 mph

• Against the law in VA as of July 1• 46% of teens text while driving

Our Kids Are Doing This!

• 70% of Americans send at least one text message per day.

• 40% of cell phone users in the U.S. use texting on a regular basis.

• This is not a “trend” or a “fad• YOU need to be informed

Getting the Lingo

TTYLTalk to you later

Getting the Lingo

IDKI don’t know

Getting the Lingo

LOLLaughing out loud

Getting the Lingo

POSParent over shoulder

Getting the Lingo

AITRAdult in the room

Getting the Lingo

GNOCGo naked on camera

Getting the Lingo

M46Meet for sex

Using Texting Wisely

• Texting can be abused, just like everything else.

• Irresponsibility with texting can have consequences you don’t think about.

“Sexting”• “New” trend among teens• Sending nude pictures or movies via text

message to girlfriends/boyfriends, etc. • This is dangerous and not to mention wrong• 20% of teens admit to sending these X-Rated

Texts • The click of a button can change a teen’s life

forever

“Sexting”

• Teens see it as just another way of flirting• Teens don’t see the seriousness of the matter• There are now cases in 10 states involving

“sexting” with Child Pornography charges

The Bottom Line• We need to be watching our kids. • We need to be cognizant of what they are

doing. • A 14-year old should not have a lock code on

their phone that you don’t know about. • Kids are less likely to act irresponsibly if they

are held accountable for their actions.

The Bottom Line

• Text Messaging can be used wisely. • But texting can also be abused. • Which is more important: your child’s privacy

or their safety?

End of Session 1

5 –minute break

Social Networking

• Started in 2004 as an intranet social network at Harvard

• Reportedly worth $40 billion• Has overtaken MySpace in number of users:

150 million worldwide• “Closed” Social Network

• You can be as open or as closed as you want to be on Facebook

• There are privacy settings and account settings on Facebook that you need to be aware of

• Go to live demo…

• Don’t put all of your personal info in your profile for everyone to see!

• Don’t become friends with someone you don’t know.

• Don’t post pictures you don’t want everyone to see.

• Don’t post messages or wall posts you don’t want everyone to see.

• Predecessor to Facebook, but was overtaken by it in 2006

• Started in 2003 as one of the first widespread Social Networking sites

• Has over 115M users, only 40% of them active• Cut 30% of it’s workforce of 1,000 employees

in June 2009• Seen as “unsafe” by teens

• “The next big thing”• Has exploded over the past 24 months by

adding 45M new users• Celebrities like it because they can say what

they want without media distortion• So WHAT is it?• Go to demo…

• Video sharing site with over 2 billion videos• Every minute 10 hrs of video is uploaded to

the site• Owned by Google• The uploading of videos containing

defamation, pornography, copyright violations, and material encouraging criminal conduct is prohibited by YouTube’s terms of service.

• Look out for the Comments section on videos• Can you block specific videos?• See the Safety Center at the bottom of all

pages

End of Session 2

5-minute break

General

Internet

Safety

A Common Sense Approach

• Just like radio and television before it, internet usage must be regulated

• Our kids have lives on the internet! Do you know what they’re doing?

• There are ways for you to keep you and your kids safe while on the web.

• Privacy vs. Safety

Unfortunate Statistics

• 1 in 7 children who use the internet have been sexually solicited.

• 1 in 5 children (10 to 17 years old) receives unwanted sexual solicitations online. 1

• 2 in 5 abductions of children ages 15-17 are due to Internet contact. 2

1. Youth Internet Safety Survey, U.S. Department of Justice, 2001. 2. San Diego Police Department.

Monitoring Services and Programs

• Netsmartz.org• OnGuardOnline.gov• Spector Pro• eBlaster• Net Nanny• Phone Spy

All products can be found and purchased at software4parents.com

Browsers

• Internet Explorer 8 (Microsoft)• Firefox 3.5 (Mozilla)• Chrome 1.1 (Google)• Opera 9 (Opera Software)• Internet Explorer 6 is phasing out

Settings in Internet Explorer 8• How do I block websites I don’t want me or

my family to see?• How do I look at what my kids have been

looking at?• Can I set limits on how long they can be on the

internet?• Is there a way to retrieve deleted History?

IE Live Demo

The Bottom Line

• Managing your kids’ internet time and content is a full-time job, but it has be done.

• It comes down to what you will allow• Kids need a strong foundation to lean on. If

gone unchecked, kids will most likely find trouble on the internet.

End of Session 3

5-minute break

Pornography

It’s EVERYWHERE• We have all run across some form of

pornography while on the internet• 15% of the internet is pornography• $17 billion last year in revenue• Largest “consumer” of pornography is the 12-

17 age group• Over 100,000 sites contain illegal child

pornography

It’s EVERYWHERE

• At a 2003 meeting of the AAML, two-thirds of the lawyers said internet pornography played a significant role in the divorces.

• 29% of born-again Christians think it is morally acceptable to view sexually explicit material.

• 47% of families admit that pornography is a problem in their home.

So how do we combat it?

• We are in a constant war. Sex in our media is rampant.

• There is an entire industry centered around combating pornography addiction.

• Focus Groups, Books, Websites, and various other means of help are at our disposal.

Straight from the Word

• Psalm 101.3-5 - I will set before my eyesno vile thing. The deeds of faithless men I hate; they will not cling to me. Men of perverse heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with evil.

Straight from the Word

• Luke 11.34 - Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body also is full of darkness.

Straight from the Word

• Philippians 4.8-9 – Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.