Saving Face While Protecting My Space

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Saving Face While Protecting My Space

• a presentation on Facebook and MySpace
• by Mark D. Light 4-H Educator Allen County
• and Nancy Recker FCS Educator Allen County

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Contract - Privacy

• Share with responsible parties
• Own all content (F)
• Cookies
• Only your social network
• Internet is not private
• Facebook add ons

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Pros

• Great place to advertise your organizations
  events
• Good way to meet people on campus that has
  similar interest to you.
• Share pictures/videos with friends
• Birthday reminders
• Keep in touch with people you meet in person and
  from high school.
• Personal messages
• Friends information all in one place
• Easy of keeping up with what is going on

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Cons

• Open to over 200,000,000 people (MySpace)
• Fake information or profiles Professors,
  celebrities
• Continuous changing user agreement
• Professors, Staff, Coaches, Employers have access
  too
• Cant sue or force them to remove someones
  content
• Anyone can copy information off your site
• Online Predators
• Spam Profiles
• Information Overload
• Access to your information Open

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Questions to ask yourself

• Are you comfortable with the kinds of things
  others might find online?
• Is everything youve posted in line with values
  and good representative of you?
• Is there anything a parent, professor, or
  employer might find questionable?
• How will you react if someone draws something
  like this to your attention?
• Would something on your site keep you from
  getting a job when you graduate?

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OSU Policies

• Ohio State may not have a current policy for or
  against Facebook or MySpace but may have the
  following
• Computer Users agreement
• Sexual Harassment
• Stalking

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Posting

• Be prudent about what you post.
• Remember that teachers, coaches, staff, and even
  future employers (using friend contacts) can
  examine Facebook and MySpace profiles.
• Take advantage of privacy settings that permit
  only friends to take a peek.
• Keep removing old content and pictures.
• Remove old groups.
• Post events that are open to the public, but not
  ones that you would want outsiders to know about.

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Profile

• Visible only to friends
• Do not list cell phones
• Do not list your address where you live
• Consider leaving off your last name
• Do not list sn or other information that link you
  to websites or personal information
• Birthdates, ages, cities, high schools

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Our online profiles

• Facebook
• Mark Light - Profile
• Nancy Recker Profile
• MySpace
• www.myspace.com/allencounty4h
• www.myspace.com/allencountyfair