Transcript FACEBOOK - Home - Parkes High School

friend
or foe?
Using Facebook and other social
networking sites safely.
(And to do good stuff!)
Facebook logos from http://www.yourlogoresources.com/
What are social networking sites?
Social networks let people stay in touch with social groups. Before the internet, social networks
were groups of friends or those with common interests. Now the term almost exclusively means
internet-based networks. Some net works have been set up to share files, especially music files.
(from Classmate, Daily Telegraph, 23 August 2011 pp28-29)
Facebook
Twitter
MySpace
Limewire
Google+
Flickr
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Read the Fine Print
Before signing up to anything online, including social media,
we should always ‘read the fine print’ and make sure we know
what we’re getting into.
Facebook Principles
https://www.facebook.com/principles.php
Facebook Principles are a statement of what Facebook is all
about.
These 10 Principles encompass freedom, sharing of
information, equality and transparency.
Facebook Principles directly reflect the personal philosophy of
its founder.
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Mark Zuckerberg
is the founder of Facebook.
He and three others created
Facebook as a social study
tool at Harvard University in
2004.
http://www.flickr.com/
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In the information section of his own
Facebook page, he says “I'm trying to
make the world a more open place by
helping people connect and share.”
Zuckerberg was
Time Magazine
“Person of the Year”
in 2010.
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One of the conference rooms at Facebook
HQ is called “The Aquarium” because the
walls are made of glass. Conference rooms
are the most private rooms at Facebook –
there are no cubicles, no walls, no doors.
Privacy is not part of his philosophy. You
have to decide if you agree with him or
not...
Martin Schoeller for TIME
Read more:
http://www.time.com/time/special
s/packages/article/0,28804,203668
3_2037183_2037185,00.html
#ixzz1Ub7LHI3M
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If have, or are setting up a Facebook account, remember to check these 3 things to maximise
your online safety.
1. Minimise the information you put on your Profile page (click on your name), and set it all to
Me Only or Friends Only.
2. Go to your Account settings next to the Home tab and set everything to the highest possible
security.
3. Go to your Privacy settings next to the Home tab and make everything as private as possible
by choosing Me Only, Friends or Custom (choose specific people) Remember, Friends of
Friends could add up to 10s of thousands of people.)
REMEMBER PAP:
PROFILE
ACCOUNT
PRIVACY
You will need to check these regularly, because with any change Facebook makes to the site,
many setting go back to the default which is PUBLIC!
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Section 4. Registration and Account Security
#5. “You will not use Face Book if you are under 13.”
Children under the age of 13 are
not allowed to have a Face
Book account.
In Facebook’s Safety Centre, found through Account, then
Help Centre, security for teens (13-17 years) is discussed in
the Parents section.
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A survey done by Consumer Reports .org
in June 2011 found that:
• Of the 20 million minors who actively used
Facebook in the past year, 7.5 million—or more
than one-third—were younger than 13 and not
supposed to be able to use the site.
• Among young users, more than 5 million were 10
and under, and their accounts were largely
unsupervised by their parents.
• One million children were harassed, threatened,
or subjected to other forms of cyberbullying on
the site in the previous year.
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If you know a person who is too young to have a Facebook account, you
can report them by filling in the Report Underage Users Form. It looks
like this:
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The concept of Privacy
Think about how well a
child under the age of
thirteen understands
the concept of privacy.
Does a child over the
age of thirteen have a
good understanding of
what privacy means?
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Facial Recognition Technology
Last year, Facebook began using Facial Recognition
technology called ‘Tag Suggestions’.
It allows users to tag other people in photographs
without their permission.
‘Tag Suggestions’ is enabled by default. You can disable it
by going to ‘Privacy Settings’ in your account.
Other sites, including photo sharing software like iPhoto
and Picasa also use Facial Recognition technology.
www.acnews.go.com/technology/facebook-facial-recognition-feature-raises-eyebrows/t/story/id=13792666
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Face Book Privacy Policy
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.#!/policy.php
• No information from children under age 13. If you are under age
13, please do not attempt to register for Facebook or provide any
personal information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have
collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will
delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we
might have any information from a child under age 13, please
contact us through this help page.
Parental participation. We strongly recommend that minors 13
years of age or older ask their parents for permission before
sending any information about themselves to anyone over the
Internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about
safe internet use practices. Materials to help parents talk to their
children about safe internet use can be found on this help page.
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Once you have set up a Facebook page using your
email address, you can choose whether or not to fill in
the information.
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Your profile picture does not need to be
one of yourself. It can be any image you
choose.
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Identity Theft
The more information
you put here, or indeed
on any social networking
site, the more open you
are to identity theft.
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Advertising
Also, the information you give is used
to target you by advertisers, hence the
ads and promotions that appear on the
right hand side of your screen on
Facebook.
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Lists
Facebook have recently changed the way we can communicate with friends by adding the
‘List’ option, which allows you to delegate friends to different lists based on their
relationship to you. You can then communicate with people on a certain list only, eg your
family.
So if you don’t want Granny to see your last night out with
friends, post to the ‘Close Friends’ list but NOT to ‘Family’.
There is now a ‘Restricted List’, for those you don’t want to
block but don’t want to share stuff with either.
The lists do not appear on your ‘Home’ page, so others
cannot see who’s on which list..
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Google+
Facebook Lists were added after the launch of Google+. Google+ uses ‘Circles’ to manage
relationships and set security options.
Google defines the circles, for example, Friends are “Your real friends, the ones you feel comfortable
sharing private details with”. Note it has a circle for “Acquaintances”, defined as “people you've met
but aren't particularly close to”.
Friends
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Family Safety Centre
Tips about how to use Facebook securely and safely can be found here, in the
Account section under Help Centre.
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities
https://www.facebook.com/terms.php
It is important to read this statement carefully.
Points of interest are:
Section 2. Sharing your Content & Information:
#4: “When you publish content or information using the
everyone setting, it means that you are allowing everyone,
including people off Face Book, to access and use that
information, and to associate it with you.”
Section 3. Safety
#6: “You will not bully intimidate or harass any user.”
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Social networking can be used for evil...
Remember the Corey Worthington affair? Back in 2008, he organised a party
using MySpace. Hundreds of people saw the invitation and gatecrashed at his
family home, causing expensive damage, because he hadn’t used privacy
settings correctly.
The August 2011 London riots spiralled out of control when people encouraged
each other to participate using Facebook and other social media.
Recent cyber bullying in our own Parkes community, as well as other regional
towns, has spilled over into the schoolyard causing hard-to-deal-with
incidents.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-socialnetworker-20110827-1jf9q.html#ixzz1Wf1ymGQm
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...however, remember the responsibilities
we all have...
Ben Self was responsible for Barack Obama’s 2008 online presidential campaign. He
says ''Politicians have said things when they thought a microphone was turned off.
Everything you say can be heard or recorded. It's about changing what you're
actually thinking or saying, not hiding it.'‘
Self does not think social media should be blamed for the London riots, even though
others have blamed websites such as Spiff TV.
He says social media is merely a tool that can be used for good or bad. ''It
wasn't social media causing the riots but a bunch of irresponsible people. It's about
personal responsibility not just pointing the finger at a tool. Do we get rid of
cars because road accidents are one of the leading causes of death among
youngsters?'‘
See the article at http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-socialnetworker-20110827-1jf9q.html
28 August 2011
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What goes on the web, stays on the web
Mia Freedman writes for Sunday Life magazine and on her blog mamamia.com.au . In a
column about recruiting staff, she talks about the role of social media in career
success:
“...Have I mentioned I find CVs useless? Mostly because they’re the work equivalent of
the profiles on dating sites. Utter spin.
Without even consciously thinking about it, the first thing I did before meeting each
candidate was to look them up on Facebook and Twitter. Interesting…
...I didn’t even need to glance at a single CV to eliminate three girls based on their
social media profiles alone. One had a constant stream of Facebook updates bitching
indiscreetly about her current job. Another evidently spent much of her time getting
drunk and a third had some very strident views I disagreed with. Stridently.
Is this fair? Sensible? Justified? Who knows but I did it. Yes, I made judgements on the
character of job applicants based on social media profiles. And why wouldn’t I? It’s
absurd to believe that how you behave on social media sites can be quarantined
from your ‘proper’ work life. It can’t. What you say online and what you choose to
post on Twitter or Facebook ...is like your shop window. It’s not your bedroom. It’s
not private. And it’s a better indication of character than any written reference.”
http://www.mamamia.com.au/news/wanted-magic/
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Checking what others can see on your
Facebook
Use the ‘View As’ tab on your wall shows
you what other people see if they search
for you on Facebook.
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Because I have set all my content to ‘Me
Only’ or ‘Friends Only’, nobody can see any
of my information except this:
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Checking information about your & yours
on the web.
You can check what information is out there about yourself, or your children, by using the
following sites:
PIPL http://www.pipl.com/. By typing in your name and location, you can see the
references to yourself, including photos, that appear on the internet. It can also show you
how to keep your information private.
Google – Me on the Web. If you create a Google account, you can access Me on the Web
and set up for an alert to be emailed to you whenever your private information, such as
phones numbers or addresses are published online. You can then remove unwanted
content.
Me on the Web is accessed through your Dashboard when you sign in.
Social Mentions http://www.socialmention.com/alerts/ will alert you whenever your
name (or anyone’s name, or company name etc) is mentioned in a variety of digital media
forms.
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When I type my name into PIPL, these are the results. I can see that the only matches are
on the deep web, which is the ‘hidden’ part of the web that holds amazing amounts of
information that most people can’t access.
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Because I have set my privacy settings carefully on all my blogs and on Facebook, they
do not show up here, they are invisible to anyone searching the name ‘Tracy Dawson’.
I can tell straight away
this isn’t me!
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Social networking can also be used for good!
Keep in mind that social networking sites are TOOLS, and therefore can be used to achieve
some really good stuff.
Politically
•To inspire and organise grass roots political movements
like those that occurred in the Arab Spring of 2011
•To allow ordinary people to have a say.
•To take part in political campaigns.
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Socially
•To communicate with friends all over the world easily
and quickly
•To be part of a social group or movement even when it
is physically impossible.
•To provide information, support and coordination in
emergencies & natural disasters.
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‘Ready QLD’
New app launched by QLD
Premier Anna Bligh after the
floods of 2011.
From SMH January 16 2012
Black Saturday Bushfires
Facebook support page.
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Educationally
•To allow access to (often free) resources and ideas from
other schools, teachers, students and communities all
over the world.
•To collaborate on projects and assignments.
•To get up-to-the-minute information.
•To inform parents and the community about what’s
happening at school.
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Students of History, Economics, Legal Studies, etc may get words ‘from
the horse’s mouth’ from people like Barack Obama.
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The only constant is change.
All websites, including social networking
sites, constantly change their appearance
and the way they work.
We have to teach our kids to be aware of
the changes, and teach them skills to keep
on top of the changes all the time.
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Personal Responsibility
We need to be responsible for how we use all social
networking sites.
We must all (students, parents, teachers, community
members) learn about social media (it’s not going away!)
so we can teach each other how to use it responsibly.
Remember, social networking is a tool, and what we build
with it, whether good or bad,
is up to us.
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