Social Media

Social Media

Poll

How many hours in a day do you spend using your social media?

• Less than an hour a day

• 1-2 hours a day

• 3-4 hours

• More than 4 hours

Watch what you post

Post:

​Do Not Post:

• ​Your address

• Your school name or logo

• Your current location

• Embarrassing photos of others

• Cursing/negative rants

• Positive statuses/positive opinions

• Normal appropriate selfies

• Your happiest/best moments

• Your hobbies

Multiple Choice

What is the most important thing to ask yourself before posting on social media?

• Will this make me more popular?

• Will this go viral?

• Am I ok with everybody I know seeing this?

• Did I check my spelling?

Privacy Settings

One of the most important safety features of social media apps

Check who can see your posts and what you give the apps permission to use (photos, location)

A good reason to go on private

70% of employers check their employees social media.

If your posts are public, they can and will fire you for inappropriate posts.

Do you feel like people are more likely to harass others because they can be anonymous online?

Report and block users who harass you nor others online.

​Anonymity and Harassment

Cyberbullying

Bullying or harassing someone in a digital space. Becoming increasingly more common because almost all teenagers use social media/technology.

Examples of cyberbullying:

• Writing hurtful things through instant messaging, text messaging, or online games

• Posting derogatory messages on social networking sites

• Posting or sharing embarrassing photos or videos

• Creating a fake profile in order to humiliate someone

Grooming and Online Predators

Grooming: the action of attempting to form a relationship with a child or young person, with the intention of sexually assaulting them or inducing them to commit an illegal act such as selling drugs or joining a terrorist organization:

Creepy people can hide their identity online and sound very charming to young people.

As a perpetrator: Seriously threatening people online is illegal and you can face jail time for it.

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As a victim: many young people have been assaulted, kidnapped and/or murdered by meeting up with strangers they met online.

Crime related to social media usage

Multiple Choice

What percentage of employers check a potential employees social media presence before employing them?

• 46%

• 25%

• 70%

• 50%

Multiple Choice

What is your digital footprint?

• A record of everywhere you have been online

• A record of all the devices you have

• Government tracking your online data

Multiple Select

What is some of the data about your social media usage that is being collected?

(Check all that apply)

• What you "Like", follow and unfollow.

• How long you look at something

• What posts you look at / don't look at

• Nothing

• Your location

Multiple Choice

If social media use is free, how do the companies make money?

• Donations

• Advertising

• Shareholders

• Billionaires fund it

Multiple Choice

What should you do to be safe on social media?

• only log on at home

• use strict privacy settings

• only post once a day

• chat with only a few friends

Multiple Choice

What's the definition of grooming?

• Spending time with children

• trying to form a relationship with a child online in an attempt to harm them

• Using technology to monitor children

• Parents blocking harmful sites on kids computers

Poll

Do you think social media can be addicting?

• Yes

• No

• Maybe