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Today we are going to find out

• What facebook is?
• Why is it popular?
• Facebook and your school
• Facebook and you
• Facebook and the student
• Facebook/HatebookCyber Bullying
• Facebook and girls
• Facebook and its advice

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what is it?

• Social net working site
• A gathering spot, to connect with friends and
  with friends of friends
• Facebook allows one to make new connections with
  people who share a common interest
• Over 500 million users
• Average friends Irish students have is approx
  300-400
• More so acquaintances
• Wall, Photo Albums, Messages

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what is it?

• Giving people the power to share and make the
  world more open and connected

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is powerful?

• The power and influence was best exemplified in
  the US presidential election campaign of Barack
  Obama where Facebook and Twitter were fully
  exploited in mobilising voter support for him
• Irish times August 2010

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Survey

• 1,000 parents and children interviewed
• 50 9 -16 year olds use it every day
• 90 use it at least 3 times a week
• -Webwisestudy 2010
• http//www.youtube.com/user/WatchYourpacep/u/3/pW
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Why is it so popular?
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and Your School?

• Protection of our students is of utmost
  importance
• Internet Usage Policy (IUP)
• Blocked access to online social sites
• SPHE/Tutors, Cool School Anti Bullying Programme
• Discuss webwise
• Security settings
• Implication of online activity

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and cyberbulling

• Bill Belsey (www.cyberbullying.ca) defines
  cyberbullying as involving
• the use of information and communication
  technologies such as email, cell phone and pager
  text messages, instant messaging, defamatory
  personal Web sites, and defamatory online
  personal polling Web sites, to support
  deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an
  individual or group, that is intended to harm
  others.

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and girls

• Girls four times more likely to be bullied on
  Facebook
• http//www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-115873
  6/Facebook-Twitter-fuel-epidemic-online-bullyi...
• Trinity Study -Prof OMooreIrish Times 29/9/2010
• 8 Camera/Video Clips
• 24.7 telephone calls
• 15.8 instant messages
• 8.9 online chat rooms
• 11 text messages in School
• Old wine new bottle
• Technology fuelling bullying

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and points to note

• Password sharing should not be allowed
• Impersonating will not be allowed
• Identity Stolen 13 year old Donegal boy
• -Irish Times May 2010
• falsely reporting fellow users to facebook
  leading to deleting of their account
• Used as a crutch instead of face to face conflict
• Stops students becoming fully rounded people

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and points to note

• Its a completely unregulated world out
  thereChildren say things that are much more
  extreme and vindictive than they would in their
  everyday lives
• (Swinford, 2006)

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and you

• Chris Cloke, NSPCC (UK)
• Students surveyed felt on average only 30 of
  mothers know how to use social networking sites
  and 24 of fathers
• (Haran, 2006)
• 70 of your parents may not know how it
  operates
• Its constantly changing
• We want to assist you in ensuring youre safe on
  line

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and your wall?

• You can write things on it
• Your friends can write things on it as well
• If you do not set the security settings
  correctly, everyone in the world who as an
  account can see it too thats over 500 million
  people
• Screenshots of my wall earlier (removed ?)
• You need to have an account to look at other
  peoples account

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and your wall?

• Information correction
• all comments made by you and pictures posted by
  you can be removed by you
• However, as you may have 100s of friends and
  may have your settings set to friends of
  friends people can see what you posted within
  minutes and print/save the information.
• Again , it is advised to have your security
  settings set to friends only

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and privacy settings

• Step by Step
• On your home page
• Go to account
• Privacy settings
• 3 options to select
• Everyone
• Friends of Friends
• Friends only
• Select friends only

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and your photo albums

• Step by Step
• Profile
• Albums
• Select Album (each album has to be changed
  individually)
• Edit Info
• 3 options to select
• Everyone
• Friends of Friends
• Friends only
• Select friends only
• Save changes

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and the future

• Job applications
• Future positions
• Roles in society
• failing to provide adequate privacy protection is
  leading to potentially damaging consequences to
  their future reputation or their job prospects
• Irish Times August 2010

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What has to say

• http//www.facebook.com/help/?safetyparents

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and its advice

• There are lots of safety and privacy controls use
  them
• Like all social networking websites, Facebook is
  only as good as the people using
• You might come across things which are upsetting,
  illegal or offensive in other ways
• Not allowed to use it under 13 years of age
• Facebook warns parents they should think about
  supervision of their children whilst online.
  After all, if you join up then you're inviting
  total strangers into your home!

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new changes

• O2 have set up a call/number barring, block
• Vmad.com bully stop
• Irish Times September 2010
• Mobile
• Video
• Cameras
• Internet connection
• youtube

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