This is the PowerPoint I created for the Mom's Expo in Marshall, MN. The topic that I spoke about was Apps/Websites that parents need to know about to keep their child(ren) safe in our social media world.

1. SNAP WHAT?
Keeping your children safe online
With Kara Damm, Technology Integration
Specialist, former Computer Teacher, Coach, and Mom of
2

2.  Parenting Tweens & Teens is difficult
 Passing “notes” vs. the world
 Knowing when to stay it’s off

3. TECHNOLOGY CAN…
 Do amazing things!
 Make our lives easier.
 Be a little scary at times.

4.  91% of the 12-to-17-year-olds post selfies
 91% share their real name
 82% list their birthday
 71% share where they live and go to school
 60% state their relationship status
 53% post their email address
 24% post videos
 20% post their cell number

5. TWEENS
 8-12 years olds are not typically malicious – they
are more curious than anything.
 The curiosity can get them into trouble on the
Internet
 Kids need to be protected from others and even
themselves

6. TEENS
 Teenagers can be mischievous
 Some teenagers will hide things from their parents
because their parents “do not know” technology or
refuse to learn

7. Teens trick their parents in the following ways:
53 percent = number of teens that clear their browser history to
keep web visits off the record
46 percent = number of teens that close/minimize their browser
when a parent walks near (to hide the web site)
34 percent = number of teens that hide or delete instant messages
or videos
23 percent = number of teens that lie or omit discussing details with
parents about online activity
23 percent = number of teens that use a PC their parents don't
check
21 percent = number of teens that use an Internet-enabled mobile
device that their parents don’t check

8. 20 percent = number of teens that use privacy settings to make
web content viewable only by friends
20 percent = number of teens that use private browsing modes
or proxy web sites (which are free)
15 percent = number of teens that create a private email address
unknown to their parents
9 percent = number of teens that create a duplicate or fake
social network profiles and share one of them with parents
Many of these tricks can be prevented or monitored.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russ-warner/kids-hide-online-behavior_b_3072938.html?utm_hp_ref=technology

9. APPS THAT KIDS ARE USING
THAT PARENTS NEED TO
KNOW ABOUT!

10. ASK.FM
 Social Media site where individuals offer
viewers the opportunity to comment and
ask questions –
 Ask.FM has been linked to at least 5
suicides in the USA and the UK.
 More than 60 million people world-wide
use this site

12. SNAPCHAT
 Most adults don’t realize how addicted kids
are to this app
 Allows kids to send self-destructing photos
of themselves or others back and forth.
 Most kids use this as a form of Sexting
 Most kids prefer SnapChat over normal text
messaging with their peers.
 Set a time limit for how long the end user
can view the picture.
 However, the end user can download
another app and capture the picture.
 Kids think images disappear – they do not.

13. REDDIT
 Community members can submit
photos, links, and stories
 Some stories are ok and some are not
 Registered users can “vote” the story
up or down to determine where the
story lands on the page

16. TINYCHAT
 Users meet in a chat room
 Chats are a combination of voice, video and instant
messaging
 Web or SmartPhone

18. KIK & WHATSAPP
 Texting application that is free- looks like a normal
texting app on phone
 No age verification for the app
 Send text, videos and photos
 iPads, iPods, other tablets not just phones
 Sexting
 Rates 17+

20. PHEED
 Launched by getting celebrities on
board, teenagers are starting to flock to it
 Pheed lets users share videos, photos, text, and
audio clips
 Topped the iTunes Store’s Social Networking Chart
in February

21. WHISPER
 Allows users to share
secrets in the form of
virtual postcards
 Allows you to chat with
other “whisperers”
 Reveals user’s location
 Using to cyberbully
 Rates 17+

23. VINE
 Allows users to create short video clips and upload
the clips to the Vine Server
 Some of the stuff out there is pretty silly but of
course, there is some nastier things
 Linked to bullying, animal cruelty, video others that
weren’t aware and posting it.
 Search by location, tags, users, etc.

25. TINDER
 Online dating service
 Teens like it because it only matches you with
people who like you back and that encourages
positive reinforcement
 Concerning because it only matches you with other
users in your geographic location
 Which means the other users may not be kids

27. WHAT CAN WE DO?
 If you are unsure on things, use Google to search
and become informed
 Attending sessions like today will help you also
 Talk, talk, talk, talk
 Discuss the “nothing is private” in today’s social
world. Even if you are texting your BFF they can
always forward that information, take a screen shot
and post it.
 Ask to see your child’s
phone, iPad, computer, device, etc. YOU ARE
PAYING FOR IT, you own it!

28. WHAT CAN WE DO?
 I require passwords for my children’s online
activities
 This doesn’t mean I constantly stalk them and go
through their accounts
 It does tell my children that I trust you enough to have
this device and the certain social media apps but know
that I can and will check in on you to make sure you are
using it correctly
 However, my child only has accounts/apps that we
approve of
 In my opinion, social media is part of our lives. Let
your children (who are legally able to) have
accounts but monitor the accounts.

29.  Cell phones, Internet, Devices, etc = hand over
without a driver’s license
 STAY INFORMED!
 Google your kids. You may be surprised that a
Twitter account you didn’t know about pops up!

30. FACEBOOK & TWITTER
 If your Tweens and Teens have Facebook or Twitter
talk to them about the importance of keeping their
profile locked.
 An open profile allows anyone in the world to peer
into their personal life.
 It also will haunt them forever.
 Maiden Search
 Married Search

31. TAKE AWAY FOR KIDS
 Anything we email, text, tweet, video, photograph
can go anywhere at anytime.