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

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Pros

• Great place to advertise your teen events
• Good way to meet people across the state that
  have similar interests to you
• Share pictures/videos with friends
• Birthday reminders
• Keep in touch with people you meet in person.
• 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 154,000,000 people (MySpace)
• Fake information or profiles Principals,
  celebrities
• Continuous changing user agreement
• Teacher, 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 and junky ads (MySpace)
• Information Overload

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Consequences

• Lake County High School will hold students
  accountable for the information on blogs and
  social networking Web sites. (Chicago Tribune,
  5/23/2006).
• Libertyville High School will have to sign a
  pledge that illegal or inappropriate" behavior
  posted on the Internet could be grounds for
  disciplinary action. (Chicago Tribune,
  5/23/2006).
• Penn State police used Facebook to identify
  students who rushed the field after the Nittany
  Lions defeated Ohio State in an Oct. 8 football
  game. (Courierjournal.com, 2005)

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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, coach, teacher, 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 college scholarship?

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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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For more information

• FACEBOOK
• Name Mark D. Light
• Networks Ohio Northern Alum '96 Columbus, OH
  
• Fields Civil Engineering College Student
  Personnel
• MySpace
• http//www.myspace.com/allencounty4h
• http//www.myspace.com/allencountyfair
• http//www.myspace.com/4hcamppalmer
• Mark Light Allen County 4-H Educator OSU
  Extension
• Focus specialty - Online social networking
• light.42_at_cfaes.osu.edu
• 419-222-9946