Benefits of On-line Social Networks

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Benefitsof On-line Social Networks

• Keeping in touch with old friends
• Fosters group interaction
• Transcends geographic boundaries
• Transcends interests and institutions
• Alumni relations
• Recruitment
• Virtual space
• Sense of belonging
• Finding new friends
• Form of social networking
• Aids in transition
• Personal exploration
• Group exploration
• Social presence

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DANGERS of Posting Information on Social Networks

• Data visibility
• Self-portrayal
• Unaffiliated parties
• Time management
• Candid pictures
• Questionable content
• School conduct implications
• Time management issues
• IP tracking
• Identity Theft theft
• Message and ad links
• Virus or spy ware threats
• Information misuse
• Information sold to third party
• Legal implications

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Student ProfilesWhy do they create them?

• Transcend Geographic Location
• - Social network is not limited to just
• Diversity, or even the state of Ohio.
• Social Presence
• - Creates a space exclusively for students
  to be represented in social network.
• Campus Involvement
• - Can be used as recruitment tool, or
• just a method for students to explore
• Diversity Campus opportunities.
• Messages sent to Friends
• It is important that you understand
• the content and format of messages
• you send to your friends should be
  appropriate.
• Wall Comments
• This information is not only seen
• by your friends, but others who view
• their profiles as well.
• Information-sharing
• Information can be viewed by various
  people both affiliated and not affiliated with
  Diversitys campus.

• Social Networking
• Sense of Belonging
• Transcending Geography
• Social Presence
• Interaction with Friends
• Personal Exploration
• Campus Involvement
• Social Networking
• - Students can explore new friends and
• establish connections across campus.
• Interaction with Friends
• - Students have ability to send messages,
  send invitations, and POKE.
• Sense of Belonging
• - Fosters feelings of meaning by
• including students in virtual social
• network.
• Social Exploration
• - Students can enter social network in a
  safer environment. As well, students can more
  easily become aware of different characteristics
  of other students.
• Transcend Geographic Location

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Information Students Post in On-line Social
Networks for Others to View

• Name
• Geography
• Status
• Sex
• Year
• Concentration
• Residence
• Birthday
• Hometown
• State
• Zip
• High School
• Email
• Preferred Email
• Screen Name
• Cell Phone
• Address
• Other Phone

• Website
• Sexual Preference
• Relationship Interest
• Relationship Status
• Political Views
• Interest
• Clubs
• Favorite Movies
• Favorite TV Shows
• Favorite Books
• Favorite Quotes
• About Me
• Job Type
• Company Job Title
• Job Description
• Work History
• Pictures

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VIEWERS
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UNAFFILIATED(unwanted viewers)
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How Can Posted Information Be Used

• Cookies from advertisers can track computer usage
  and information.
• Inappropriate and illegal content can be
  subpoenaed.
• Advertisers can use information for soliciting
  emails.
• Providing personal information (i.e. address,
  room number, schedule etc.) can leave you
  vulnerable to theft and stalking.
• The internet is a public domain. Materials can be
  used inappropriately, leaving the owner liable.
• Students can become addicted to updating and
  checking their profiles, which could negatively
  impact academic success.
• Information posted that violates the student
  conduct code may be used against them in a
  student judicial hearing.
• It is important to note
• Potential employers, local and campus police, and
  University administrators can log onto these
  on-line social networks and view the information
  that students make available. Students Beware,
  the information you post may jeopardize your
  future aspirations.

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Dangersand Misuse of On-line Social Networks

• Profile content and information could be gathered
  and used for the following
• Stalking
• Arming Predators
• Harassment
• Sexual Assault
• Slander
• Internet connectivity and a trusting attitude
  toward this technology can
• facilitate
• IP Tracking
• Dangerous links
• Spy ware threats
• ID Theft
• Information sold to third party

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TIPS

• Report any suspicious activity or connectivity.
• Pay attention to what information you disclose.
• Hover over ad or message links to see where they
  lead.
• Keep password hidden and make it unique.
• Heighten security so only your friends can view
  your information.
• Only approve friends that you know.

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NSU Student Code of Conduct

• The following code may be applied to
  inappropriate behaviors
• Unauthorized access, use, or misuse of
  University property including, but not limited
  to attempting to leave the library with library
  materials which have not been properly borrowed
  unauthorized use or misuse of computer equipment,
  computer accounts, computer software and
  hardware or misuse of University telephones.
• Conduct deemed unlawful by the criminal
  statutes of the
• Commonwealth of Virginia or the United States of
  America and
• conduct that endangers or threatens the security
  of the University
• community.

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Harassment by computer

• 18.2-152.71. Harassment by computer penalty.
• If any person, with the intent to coerce,
  intimidate, or harass any person, shall use a
  computer or computer network to communicate
  obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or
  indecent language, or make any suggestion or
  proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten any
  illegal or immoral act, he shall be guilty of a
  Class 1 misdemeanor.
• (2000, c. 849.)

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Slander and libel

• 18.2-417. Slander and libel.
• Any person who shall falsely utter and speak, or
  falsely write and publish, of and concerning any
  female of chaste character, any words derogatory
  of such female's character for virtue and
  chastity, or imputing to such female acts not
  virtuous and chaste, or who shall falsely utter
  and speak, or falsely write and publish, of and
  concerning another person, any words which from
  their usual construction and common acceptation
  are construed as insults and tend to violence and
  breach of the peace or shall use grossly
  insulting language to any female of good
  character or reputation, shall be guilty of a
  Class 3 misdemeanor.
• The defendant shall be entitled to prove upon
  trial in mitigation of the punishment, the
  provocation which induced the libelous or
  slanderous words, or any other fact or
  circumstance tending to disprove malice, or
  lessen the criminality of the offense.
• (Code 1950, 18.1-256 1960, c. 358 1973, c.
  526 1975, cc. 14, 15.)

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Privacy

• 18.2-386.1. Unlawful filming, videotaping or
  photographing of another penalty.
• A. It shall be unlawful for any person to
  knowingly and intentionally videotape,
  photograph, or film any nonconsenting person or
  create any videographic or still image record by
  any means whatsoever of the nonconsenting person
  if (i) that person is totally nude, clad in
  undergarments, or in a state of undress so as to
  expose the genitals, pubic area, buttocks or
  female breast in a restroom, dressing room,
  locker room, hotel room, motel room, tanning bed,
  tanning booth, bedroom or other location or (ii)
  the videotape, photograph, film or videographic
  or still image record is created by placing the
  lens or image-gathering component of the
  recording device in a position directly beneath
  or between a person's legs for the purpose of
  capturing an image of the person's intimate parts
  or undergarments covering those intimate parts
  when the intimate parts or undergarments would
  not otherwise be visible to the general public
  and when the circumstances set forth in clause
  (i) or (ii) are otherwise such that the person
  being videotaped, photographed, filmed or
  otherwise recorded would have a reasonable
  expectation of privacy.
• B. The provisions of this section shall not apply
  to filming, videotaping or photographing or other
  still image or videographic recording by (i)
  law-enforcement officers pursuant to a criminal
  investigation which is otherwise lawful or (ii)
  correctional officials and local or regional jail
  officials for security purposes or for
  investigations of alleged misconduct involving a
  person committed to the Department of Corrections
  or to a local or regional jail, or to any sound
  recording of an oral conversation made as a
  result of any videotaping or filming pursuant to
  Chapter 6 ( 19.2-61 et seq.) of Title 19.2.
• C. A violation of subsection A shall be
  punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.
• D. A violation of subsection A involving a
  nonconsenting person under the age of 18 shall be
  punishable as a Class 6 felony.
• (1994, c. 640 2004, c. 844 2005, c. 375.)

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Protective order in cases of stalking and acts of
violence

• 19.2-152.10. Protective order in cases of
  stalking and acts of violence.
• A. The court may issue a protective order
  pursuant to this chapter to protect the health
  and safety of the petitioner and family or
  household members of a petitioner upon (i) the
  issuance of a warrant for a criminal offense
  resulting in a serious bodily injury to the
  petitioner, or a violation of 18.2-60.3, (ii) a
  hearing held pursuant to subsection D of
  19.2-152.9, or (iii) a conviction for a criminal
  offense resulting in a serious bodily injury to
  the petitioner, or a violation of 18.2-60.3. A
  protective order issued under this section may
  include any one or more of the following
  conditions to be imposed on the respondent
• 1. Prohibiting criminal offenses that may result
  in injury to person or property, or acts of
  stalking in violation of 18.2-60.3
• 2. Prohibiting such contacts by the respondent
  with the petitioner or family or household
  members of the petitioner as the court deems
  necessary for the health or safety of such
  persons and
• 3. Any other relief necessary to prevent criminal
  offenses that may result in injury to person or
  property, or acts of stalking, communication or
  other contact of any kind by the respondent.
• B. The protective order may be issued for a
  specified period however, unless otherwise
  authorized by law, a protective order may not be
  issued under this section for a period longer
  than two years. A copy of the protective order
  shall be served on the respondent and provided to
  the petitioner as soon as possible. The clerk
  shall upon receipt forward forthwith an attested
  copy of the order to the local police department
  or sheriff's office which shall, upon receipt,
  enter the name of the person subject to the order
  and other appropriate information required by the
  Department of State Police into the Virginia
  Criminal Information Network system established
  and maintained by the Department pursuant to
  Chapter 2 ( 52-12 et seq.) of Title 52. Where
  practical, the court may transfer information
  electronically to the Virginia Criminal
  Information Network system. If the order is later
  dissolved or modified, a copy of the dissolution
  or modification order shall also be attested,
  forwarded and entered into the system as
  described above.
• C. Except as otherwise provided, a violation of a
  protective order issued under this section shall
  constitute contempt of court.
• D. The court may assess costs and attorneys' fees
  against either party regardless of whether an
  order of protection has been issued as a result
  of a full hearing.

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Protective order in cases of stalking and acts of
violence

• E. Any judgment, order or decree, whether
  permanent or temporary, issued by a court of
  appropriate jurisdiction in another state, the
  United States or any of its territories,
  possessions or Commonwealths, the District of
  Columbia or by any tribal court of appropriate
  jurisdiction for the purpose of preventing
  violent or threatening acts or harassment against
  or contact or communication with or physical
  proximity to another person, including any of the
  conditions specified in subsection A, shall be
  accorded full faith and credit and enforced in
  the Commonwealth as if it were an order of the
  Commonwealth, provided reasonable notice and
  opportunity to be heard were given by the issuing
  jurisdiction to the person against whom the order
  is sought to be enforced sufficient to protect
  such person's due process rights and consistent
  with federal law. A person entitled to protection
  under such a foreign order may file the order in
  any appropriate district court by filing with the
  court, an attested or exemplified copy of the
  order. Upon such a filing, the clerk shall
  forward forthwith an attested copy of the order
  to the local police department or sheriff's
  office which shall, upon receipt, enter the name
  of the person subject to the order and other
  appropriate information required by the
  Department of State Police into the Virginia
  Criminal Information Network system established
  and maintained by the Department pursuant to
  Chapter 2 ( 52-12 et seq.) of Title 52.
• Upon inquiry by any law-enforcement agency of the
  Commonwealth, the clerk shall make a copy
  available of any foreign order filed with that
  court. A law-enforcement officer may, in the
  performance of his duties, rely upon a copy of a
  foreign protective order or other suitable
  evidence which has been provided to him by any
  source and may also rely upon the statement of
  any person protected by the order that the order
  remains in effect.
• F. Either party may at any time file a written
  motion with the court requesting a hearing to
  dissolve or modify the order. Proceedings to
  modify or dissolve a protective order shall be
  given precedence on the docket of the court.
• G. Neither a law-enforcement agency, the attorney
  for the Commonwealth, a court nor the clerk's
  office, nor any employee of them, may disclose,
  except among themselves, the residential address,
  telephone number, or place of employment of the
  person protected by the order or that of the
  family of such person, except to the extent that
  disclosure is (i) required by law or the Rules of
  the Supreme Court, (ii) necessary for
  law-enforcement purposes, or (iii) permitted by
  the court for good cause.
• H. No fees shall be charged for filing or serving
  petitions pursuant to this section.
• I. As used in this section, "copy" includes a
  facsimile copy.
• (1997, c. 831 1998, cc. 569, 684 1999, c. 371
  2002, cc. 507, 810, 818 2003, c. 730.)

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Questions

• Using your name as a password and having it
  written down in your desk is safe.
• What group of viewers might misuse your profile
  information?
• Users know messages I send are not serious and
  there is no reason for concern.
• Which Commonwealth of Virginia laws could be
  enforced with on-line social networking?
• The University administration intentionally
  sweeps on-line networks to catch students?
• As an NSU student you could be subject to a
  judicial hearing on campus if there is a
  violation of the student code of conduct because
  of information posted on-line?

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