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Social Networking for Parents:A Hands-on Technology Workshop

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

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Agenda for the Evening

• Your Hopes

• Social Networking Sites

– Sign Up for a Facebook Account

• Cell Phones , Texting & Instant Messaging• Cell Phones , Texting & Instant Messaging

– Test your txting skills

• Online Gaming

• Questions and Answers

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Did You Know?

One-third (33%) of 13-17 year olds and

nearly half (48%) of 16-17 year olds

report that their parents or guardians

know “very little” or “nothing” about know “very little” or “nothing” about

what they do on the Internet.

Cox Communications press release, “New Study Reveals 14% of Teens Have Had Face-to-Face

meetings with People They’ve Met on the Internet,” May 11, 2006.

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Quick Survey

• Who has a Facebook account?

• Who belongs to any other social networking

site?

• Who regularly uses text messaging with their • Who regularly uses text messaging with their

cell phone? Who takes pictures and sends

them to others with their cell phone?

• Which gaming consoles do you have at home?

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Some Advice

• Get involved with your children’s internet activity

• Best parental control is ….

parental involvementparental involvement

• Acceptable behavior online is similar to acceptable behavior in the real world

• Start early with kids…It’s easier to establish good practices than change bad ones

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SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES

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Some Data

MySpace - 2003 Facebook - 2004

Today:

>70% of online teens use social network sites

http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2009/Teens-and-the-internet.aspx

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• Social Networking Web Site

• Free

• 175 Million Users

• Some controversy recently• Some controversy recently

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Let’s Take a Look

• www.facebook.com

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Advantages of

Social Networking Sites for Teens

• Forum for teens to express themselves in

creative ways

• Means for teens to stay connected

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Dangers of

Social Networking Sites for Teens

• Can put too much personal information online

• False sense of security

• Saying you are older than you are can expose you to more riskyou to more risk

• Risk of cyberbullying

• What you post, might come back to haunt you

– inappropriate content

– real or invented activities

– gossip about school peers

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CELL PHONES , TEXTING &

INSTANT MESSAGING

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Did You Know?

• Roughly 60 percent of American

teenagers own a cell phone,

according to U.S. Cellular statistics, according to U.S. Cellular statistics,

and spend an average of an hour a

day talking on them.

• "Cell Phones." Center on Media and Child Health. 2007. Children's Hospital Boston.

24 Mar. 2009 http://www.cmch.tv/mentors/hotTopic.asp?id=70.

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Cell Phones

• Upside – Safety

– Convenience

• Downsides– Health Risks

• Bullying

• Eye strain and “digital thumb”“digital thumb”

• Bacteria

• Lack of sleep

– Dependence

– Dishonesty

– Expense

"Cell Phones." Center on Media and Child Health. 2007. Children's Hospital Boston. 24 Mar. 2009 http://www.cmch.tv/mentors/hotTopic.asp?id=70.

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DIS sNteNc U nEd 2

Lern txt lingoLern txt lingo

"Internet Safety: Chat safety - Cell (Mobile) phone safety, Text messaging (SMS) safety." WiredSafety: the world's largest Internet safety,

help and education resource. 24 Mar. 2009 http://www.wiredsafety.org/safety/chat_safety/phone_safety/sms7.html.

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If you do not

understand this

sentence you need to sentence you need to

learn text lingo

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Decoding Text Messaging Lingo

• Spell it like it sounds

• Use numbers and symbols as words or parts of words

• Leave out vowel

• Remove the e in words ending with e• Remove the e in words ending with e

• Replace o with u for correct sound

• Shorten double consonants to one

• Substitute i + consonants with y

Preuss, Simone. "Decoding Text Messaging Lingo." Media Literacy. 10 Dec. 2008. 24 Mar. 2009

http://medialiteracy.suite101.com/article.cfm/decoding_text_messaging_lingo.

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OMG: What Are Your Kids Texting?

Parents' Text Messaging Quiz

Madden, Chris. Text Message Cartoon - SMS Cartoon. Digital image. Chris Madden Cartoons. 24 Mar. 2009

http://www.chrismadden.co.uk/cell-phone-cartoons/text-message-cartoon.html.

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Text Messaging Abbreviations

• Webopedia

• Sharpened Glossary

• Netlingo

• TechDictionary• TechDictionary

• UrbanDictionary

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Consider this…

• Hard to monitor cell conversations

• Text messaging allows more discretion

• Mixing cell phone use and driving is a dangerous,

• Sexting• sending nude pictures via

text message

• Roughly 20 percent of teens admit to participating in "sexting," according to a nationwide driving is a dangerous,

deadly and often illegal combination

• Troubling photos/videos taken with a cell phone can quickly and easily be posted to a Web site for anyone to see

according to a nationwide survey

""Sexting" Shockingly Common Among Teens - CBS News." CBS

News - Breaking News Headlines: Business, Entertainment &

World News. 15 Jan. 2009. 24 Mar. 2009

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/15/national/main472

3161.shtml.

"Cell Phones -." Parents. The Anti-Drug. 24 Mar. 2009

http://www.theantidrug.com/advice/teens-today/teens-

and-technology/cell-phones.aspx.

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ONLINE GAMING

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Some Statistics

Pong is 18 years oldToday:

97% of teens play video

or computer games

Pong is 18 years old

or computer games

http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2009/Teens-and-the-internet.aspx

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Online Gaming - What

• Systems – Xbox, PS3, Wii

• To Connect – must have an Internet

connection

• Nintendo DS – like phone txting• Nintendo DS – like phone txting

• Video

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Online Gaming - Who

• Who they can talk to depends on settings

• Talking is just like having a phone

conversation; can have these conversations

with total strangerswith total strangers

• Shouldn’t give away information like age and

gender; but when you have live voice

chatting, age and gender are obvious

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Online Gaming - How

• Set parental controls

– You can limit who children are able to talk/chat to;

you can approve friends

– Video demo with Xbox 360– Video demo with Xbox 360

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3ndKqVZRFI

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Helpful Websites

• Xbox 360

http://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/xbox.mspx

• PS3 • PS3 http://au.playstation.com/support/ps3/faqs/ps3_FAQ_parentalcontrol_internet.jhtml

• Wiihttp://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/settingsParentalControls.jsp

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

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Key Parenting Tip

Maintain an open dialogue with your children

about the Internet and how they use it,

whether for social networking, entertainment,

or learning.or learning.

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This presentation will be available

online at:

www.ashmi.org/parentingwww.ashmi.org/parenting