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4 1-1 of social networking safety
1. 4-1-1 of Social Networking Safety Protecting our children through information, observation, and boundaries
2. Presenter Fred Miller Disciple, husband, father, GRANDFATHER, pastor, neighbor, GRANDFATHER, brother, college staffer, website designer/manager, motivational speaker, GRANDFATHER and friend.
3. The Issue Technology has provided youth with the ability to communicate by various electronic means on a 24/7 basis without the direct knowledge of parents/guardians with regard to content or audience.
4. The Issue Technology has provided youth with the ability to communicate by various electronic means on a 24/7 basis without the direct knowledge of parents/guardians with regard to content or audience. Voice Text Chat E-mail (old fashioned)
5. The Issue Technology has provided youth with the ability to communicate by various electronic means on a 24/7 basis without the direct knowledge of parents/guardians with regard to content or audience. Cell Phone Computers Ipods MP3 Players “Pad” devices Handheld video games Console video games Wireless Printers
6. The Issue Technology has provided youth with the ability to communicate by various electronic means on a 24/7 basis without the direct knowledge of parents/guardians with regard to content or audience.
7. The Issue Technology has provided youth with the ability to communicate by various electronic means on a 24/7 basis without the direct knowledge of parents/guardians with regard to content or audience.
8. Related Issues What children “say” is no longer “said and done.” “Said/Told/Showed” often means “sent” or “posted.” What goes on the Internet, stays on the Internet. What gets sent/posted, gets resent and reposted.
10. The advance of technology has outpaced the maturity of the people who use it. There has been little time for wisdom to develop. This leads to users doing stupid things they might not otherwise to.
11. Adults (read: parents) are often out of touch with the technology and social influences that motivate children/youth to interact inappropriately on the Internet.
12. Problems 95% of parents don't recognize the lingo kids use to let people know that their parents are watching 89% of sexual solicitations are made in either chat rooms or Instant Messages 20% of children age 10-17 have been solicited sexually online; that's 1 out of every 5 kids
13. Problems 75% of youth who received an online sexual solicitation did not tell a parent One third of kids have been contacted by a stranger and half of these were considered inappropriate 81% of parents of online youth say that kids aren't careful enough when giving out information about themselves online
14. Problems 76% of parents don't have rules about what their kids can do on the computer 65% of parents believe that kids do things online that they wouldn't want their parents to know about 4,000,000 children are posting content to the Web everyday
15. Problems 15,000,000 youth use Instant Messaging 9 out of 10 parents will never know that any inappropriate contact has occurred 14% have actually met face to face with a person they have met on the Internet 1 out of 17 kids have been harassed, threatened, or bullied
16. Problems Nearly three-quarters (73%) of online teens believe that someone their age is most likely to be approached by someone unknown to them online as opposed to offline When asked how they responded the last time they were contacted online by a complete stranger, just 3% of online teens said they told an adult or authority figure Most kids will not report inappropriate Internet contact to their parents because they are afraid of losing Internet privileges
17. Problems 61% of 13-17 yr olds have a personal profile on social networking sites 44% of online teens with profiles like Facebook and Myspace have been contacted by a stranger, compared with 16 percent of those without profiles. 71% have reported receiving messages from someone they do not know 45% have been asked for personal info from people they do not know
18. Problems 48% of 16-17 yr olds report that their parents know "very little" or "nothing" about their online activities MySpace deletes 25,000 profiles weekly of users who don't meet the site's 14-year-old minimum age requirement From 2007-2009 MySpace has deleted 90,000 accounts because they were created by registered sex offenders
24. Reasons Why are kids drawn to this type of communication? Why are they so free and open with their private information?
25. Solutions Educate yourself and your children Locate computers in public areas. Set limits on web browsers Set rules (what, when, how long) Set limits on mobile devices Install monitoring software Check their messages, posts, pictures, etc. frequently
27. Top Social Networking Sites MySpace - also known as "myspacing" Friendster - millions have met Tribe.net - strong community focus Facebook - nickname "facebooking masses" Blogger - get a free blog YouTube - "Are you YouTubing?" is how you'll hear it Flickr - for photos Craigslist - still personal favorite LinkedIn - perfectly professional Gather - go see Classmates.com - the first social networking site in 1995
28. Newsflash Togetherville.com is a social networking site for children ages 6-10. It was recently purchased by Disney. It requires parents to have a Facebook account that authorizes the child’s Togetherville account.
29. Sources Social Networking Statistics.. Web sites used when researching these statistics during 2008: http://www.netlingo.com/tips/online-safety-statistics.php http://www.pewinternet.org/pipcomments.asp?m=9&y=2007 http://www.washingtonpost.com http://www.protectkids.org/statistics.htm http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/publications/bulletins/internet_2_2001/internet_2_01_6.html http://www.sentrypc.com/statistics.htm http://www.enough.org/inside.php?tag=statistics http://www.netsmartz.org/safety/statistics.htm http://www.mykidsafeinternet.com/pornography_stats.php http://www.safefamilies.org/sfStats.php http://www.cyberpatrol.com/default.aspx?id=79&mnuid=7.5 http://www.harpers.org http://safetspace.com http://climbtothestars.org
Editor's Notes
“…ability to communicate…” They can talk, text, chat, or if they do it the old fashioned way, send an e-mail.
“…ability to communicate…” They can talk, text, chat, or if they do it the old fashioned way, send an e-mail.
“…without the direct knowledge of parents/guardians…”This simply means that the adults don’t know it’s happening. There was a time when children had to use the house phone to talk to friends. As recently as 2006, no child in our home had a cell phone and they used the house phone at the kitchen table or on the front porch.That’s no long the case. Even in our generation, it was possible to talk to friends without our parents knowledge, but we had to be F2F to do it. Not any more.
“…with regard to content or audience…”We no longer have a clue what our kids are “saying” or to whom they are saying it.An added problem is the fact that, in a lot of cases, THEY don’t know who they are talking to…as we will see.
In the past, the worse thing you worried about was if someone found the love note Harry or Mary sent you. Not any more!These words mean totally different things now. And that’s a problem because…Once it’s out there, you have to assume it will always be out there; and Forwarding messages and pictures and songs and other stuff is the gasoline of gossip.
I say that because….
READ THE SLIDEDon’t you know there are young adults out there (20 – 25) trying to get jobs who wish they hadn’t posted that stuff about their ex or uploaded that racy photo at the college frat party!Our children lack the wisdom that comes from life experience anyway. Why should we think they are equipped to handle this technology wisely without some guidance?Problem is…
READ THE SLIDEDon’t you know there are young adults out there (20 – 25) trying to get jobs who wish they hadn’t posted that stuff about their ex or uploaded that racy photo at the college frat party!Our children lack the wisdom that comes from life experience anyway. Why should we think they are equipped to handle this technology wisely without some guidance?Problem is…
I know the videos touched on the reasons why youth are so attracted to social networking, but I’d like to talk about it a bit more. -Instant-Automatic (in some cases)-Anonymous (in some cases)-Private (under certain circumstances)-Liberating (from parental control and notice…premature though it may beWhat about their free and open sharing of information?Sense of Safety (actually a false sense of security)-High level of trust (coming from immaturity and lack of understanding about Internet and human nature)-Ignorance of “bad guys”
TALK THROUGH THESE POINTS THEN ADD…Our children and youth need to understand that social networking is still very much a privilege and not a right. And as such, it can be taken away if abused.