Facebook privacy presentation for teachers

1. Facebook Privacy Protect yourself!

2. Why is this necessary?Facebook Headlines http://www.reputationdefenderblog.com/2008/01/21/teacher-fired-over-myspace-photo http://www.collegerecruiter.com/weblog/2006/06/texas_teacher_f.php http://www.dailytexanonline.com/1.751193

3. Societal views of teachers… 1872 Rules For Teachers (http://www.rossr.us/MissMaddy/collection/1872.htm) Teachers each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's session. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed. Every teacher should lay aside from each day's pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves

4. Networks Choose your networks carefully. Else, parents can find you. Employers can find you. Professors can find you. Your students can find you. Parents and potential employers could easily be a part of any network you choose. Don’t forget that friends of friends of friends can eventually find you. Safeguard this possibility!

5. Who is on Facebook? "There's an ongoing misperception that certain Web activities are the exclusive domain of young people," Crupnick said. “…41% (of baby boomers) have visited a social network site. “ “…61% of baby boomers have visited YouTube, TV network Web sites and other sites that stream video” “Younger web users – those between the ages of 13 and 34 – are still more likely to visit social networking sites and visit them more often..” (What are the ages of your students’ parents?) (http://www.contentagenda.com/blog/1680000368/post/670033467.html)

6. FaceBook Says: More than 100 million active users Facebook is the 4th most-trafficked website in the world (comScore) Facebook is the most-trafficked social media site in the world (comScore) More than half of Facebook users are outside of college The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older (http://www.new.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics= )

7. How do others see you? Using the newest features to see how others see you.

8. Protecting your profile Whether as a group or individually, you need to safeguard your profile, so that others who are uninvited cannot see you. Consider narrowing your network Set your privacy settings Set your “searchability” settings