Transcript Presented by: Jeff Rosenberry Montana State University Billings Assistant Director, Housing & Residential Life Perfect Image Leadership Foundation Co-Founder.

Presented by:
Jeff Rosenberry
Montana State University Billings
Assistant Director, Housing & Residential Life
Perfect Image Leadership Foundation
Co-Founder
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Brief Facebook History and Stats
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Theoretical Applications
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Site Uses and Examples
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The good, the bad, the ugly
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What can you do?
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Final Thoughts
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To keep up with friends, you actually had to
see them.
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To organize a party, you had to pick up the
phone.
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To get a date, you had to have chemistry.
Now, thanks to the miracle of online social
networking sites, you can manage your
life without taking your hands off the
keyboard.
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Originated at Harvard University February 2004
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Mark Zuckerberg created site to rate/berate others
Got in trouble w/university for using University Images
More than 6,000 Harvard people signed up within the first
three weeks
Within 4 months 40 Colleges had requested
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In September 2005, facebook.com launched a
service for high school students
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2006 facebook.com opened to all
adults (this demographic is the
fastest growing population)
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It typically attracts 80% of a school’s undergraduate
population
*U.S. News and World Report September 18, 2006
 More
than 200 million active users
 Average
user has 120 friends listed
 More
than 3 trillion minutes are spent on
Facebook each day
 More
than 18 million users update their status
at least once each day
 More
than 70% of Facebook users are outside
the United States
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2008
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Males: 38.1%
Females: 47.3%
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18-24: 53.8%
25-34: 21.1%
35-54: 7.0%
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2009
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Males: 42.2%
Females: 55.7%
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18-24: 40.8%
25-34: 26.7%
35-54: 16.6%
 Electronic
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Tether Theory
Describes connection between students and
parents maintain through convenient
communication
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Cell phones, IM, Facebook, cheap and effective forms
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Students can post photos, send messages,
join groups of interest
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Students regularly look at profiles of people
they know and people they don’t…
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Items included on profiles: name, address, phone
numbers, hobbies, class schedules, list of friends,
groups, interests, etc.
Students are able to include whatever they
want.
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Sky's the limit!
Advantages:
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Finding old high school friends
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Looking up profiles of classmates/friends
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Communication
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Getting help with homework and academics
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Advertising and marketing campus events
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Building a portfolio of new friends
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Spreading the word about concerts, book sales,
and student organizations
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Music
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT1GvPQG904
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I didn't ask for it. I didn't want it. Regardless - I
got it. Monday, Facebook turned a halogen
spotlight on the dim backyard of my online social
life. …
No longer! Now every student barricaded into a dorm
room can enjoy the buzz off a double shot of gossip
every morning before breakfast without the social
inconvenience of getting to know more than a
handful of people on their floor. The small town
environment has returned.
Collin Megil, The Daily Campus (U. Connecticut)
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Video of attack on a boy
posted on his own Myspace
account (PHILADELPHIA 1.24.08 )
Stalking on the rise with the
use of the internet postings
on MySpace & Facebook
leading to violence (The Everett
Herald 1.21.08)
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MySpace Death
– 13 year old Missouri
girl
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Mother suing Facebook
over text messages
(10/2007)
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MySpace shuts down
server after
pornographic link found
(1.28.08)
 Administrators
are now on online social networks
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Judicial proceedings can and do happen from
information on the sites
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Police use for warrants
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Employers are using online networks to weed out
potential employers who don’t meet values
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg:
 "Some
people may get busted by administrators if
they're doing things that are stupid, but on a dayto-day basis, the ability to communicate ... is so
valuable that everyone keeps using the site, and
they probably will keep using the site."
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Be proactive
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Informational cards
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Educate
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Warn students
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Survey
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Remind students
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One-on-one conversations
with students
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Develop programs and/or
presentations
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Educate on Privacy
Settings
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If you wouldn’t post it on your front door, don’t post
it online
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Use privacy settings to help control who can access
your information
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Your online profile may be the only impression
someone has of you
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Civility matters…even on the Internet
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Build your character and strengths, not what you did
last weekend
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Get a facebook account…SERIOUSLY!
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Show your kids you know how to use what they are using, and
are willing to learn what you may not know how to do.
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Become their “friend”
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Don’t get angry with content
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Education over Enforcement
http://www.flixxy.com/technology-and-education-2008.htm
Questions and/or Perspectives
[email protected]
Self Esteem Through Positive Influence
Perfect Image Leadership Foundation
1905 Terminal Drive
Richland, WA 99354
ph: 509 946-3272
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GOAL
Perfect Image Leadership Foundation is dedicated to the development of self-esteem in young people. The goal
is to provide a program that will instill traditional values, such as etiquette and leadership skills, to enable young
people to interact in social settings in the community and work environments.
IMPACT
The Foundation is organized exclusively for educational purposes. The target audience for this program is high
school and early college level students with a desire to improve their ability to interact positively with peers,
mentors, educators, and potential employers.
The Foundation not only provides a program to instill etiquette and leadership skills in students, it also works with
local employers interested in hiring young people for their technical abilities and soft skills. As a result, young
people get higher paying, better quality jobs and the employers get employees who exhibit leadership and can
interact with the public in a positive manner.
COMMUNITY
As a community, we are able to take stress off the state welfare system and volunteer organizations supporting
the chronically poor, thereby helping to relieve generational welfare. The impact of instilling self-esteem in young
people, who will use these values to help others rise to a better quality of life, is beyond measure.
Perfect Image Leadership Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization