Protect Your Social Media Online Reputation
Social Media Resources
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Linked-In Instagram Pinterest Twitter Facebook
Blogs
Provide commentary or insight on a particular subject.
Allows for readers to leave comments
Showcases your writing skills!
Many newspapers, instructors, actors, government officials use blogs!
Linked In
Social network to connect with professionals.
Build your professional identity online and stay in touch with colleagues and classmates
Find out what it means to be GREAT at what you do!
Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn's CEO is Jeff Weiner, previously a Yahoo! Inc. executive. The company was founded by Reid Hoffman and founding team members from PayPal and Socialnet.com.
250 million users
www.linkedin.com
Instagram
Instagram is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends and family.
Take a picture or video, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram — it's that easy.
You can even share to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and more. It's a new way to see the world.
Friends can “follow” your pictures that you post. www.instagram.com
Pinterest A content sharing service that allows members to "pin" images, videos and other objects to their pinboard. Also includes standard social networking features You can follow the boards of others. You can plan and get ideas for anything! Trips, recipes, weddings, parties, classroom themes, clothing ideas, etc.
www.pinterest.com
Twitter Social networking and microblogging service utilizing instant messaging, SMS or a web interface.
Twitter Users use @ to mention a person in their post that they “follow� @aamu @todayshow @iamsteveharveytv Hashtags # are used to set trends and gain followers #myaamul #bulldogs #geauxsaints #whoDAT
www.twitter.com
Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.
Founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004
It is the world's largest social network with more than 1 billion users.
www.facebook.com Majority of users Between ages 18-25
Categories of Internet Privacy
Public: Most or all privacy settings are open to public view and are
Friends/Followers-only: On Facebook and many other
Locked Accounts: All privacy settings are shut down, and
searchable either on Google (depending on the channel) or on Facebook Graph Search.
channels, this means that you have set your private information to be viewed only by those you approve as friends or followers. Twitter does not have an approval feature for followers other than a locked account.
permission to follow or friend is managed on a case-by-case basis by the user. On Twitter, this means that no one can see your tweets except approved followers, and your tweets cannot be retweeted. However, screenshots are always in the mix.
For the 13 million who have never touched their privacy settings, that means their profile information, status posts, and pictures could all be public. (SocialMediaToday)
You Are Responsible
Friends
Comments
Type of Posts
Pictures
…for WHO and WHAT YOU let in your World!!
Protect Your Privacy Facebook alone has over one billion active monthly users and 13 million of them have never touched their privacy settings, according to recent research done by Marketo
• 28% share all, or almost all, of their wall posts with an audience wider than just their friends.
• 11% of Facebook users said that someone else has tried to use their login without their permission
Remember that what you put on the Internet stays there. Even if your profile is private, your anyone can download and save for use against you.
Cyberbullying Shea Shawhan, 18, a junior at Plano West Senior High School, suffers from seizures due to a brain injury she suffered birth. Shea participates in sports and is a member of the school's cheerleading squad. "Shea should just have one of her “f**$^ing”
seizures and die because people at west don't want her. That's the reason she has seizures, because that's karma for giving birth to a freaky slut.“ (Actual Text, Huffington Post)
Leads to violence, suicide, depression, or discrimination: The most recent story making the rounds on cable news and the Internet is Rebecca Sedwick, of Lakeland, Fla., who jumped from a cement factory tower on September 9th, 2013
Consequences
The District Attorney, can press charges of Communication Harassment
http://answers.uslegal.com/criminal/harassment/13087/
You can be taken to court for malicious, slanderous insults and comments!
You can be sued, reprimanded, fired, fined, and/ or spend time in jail!
Your Identity Could Be Stolen!
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Don’t share
Your phone number
Address
Passwords
Birthdate (MM/DD/YY)
Social Security number That sensitive information would be accessible by anyone, no hacking required. Your Identity could be stolen !
Confidential Information Predators can track your whereabouts when you post where you are and how long you are gone. Don’t take a picture of your schedule You could be stalked! Be careful of location “check-ins.” (i.e. Foursquare) Post few days AFTER you have left the location.
You missed class or work because you are sick, but you post a picture of you at the beach! You post that you are out the country, You return to find your home has been burglarized.
Don’t Air Your Dirty Laundry
Exposing Family Secrets
Lovers Quarrels
Problems with Teachers, Your Boss or Friends
You risk chance of destroying relationships!
As a Student…
Schools can track IP addresses
Admissions officers can view profiles.
Professors and university administrators can hold key to your grade for a course, internship, or even a job!
Privacy Settings Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Linked In You can control your privacy settings. Facebook changes its policy often!
Twitter, Blogs Everything is public and shared with EVERYONE!
Don’t Be a Stalker!
Don’t add all of your friends’ friends.
Don’t comment on every single post!
Don't stalk their social media profile!
We do not need to know your every move!
Clean Up Your Profile! Remove vulgar language and anything illegal, ethically questionable Take down questionable pictures Alcohol Skimpy clothes
Smoking Partying
Illegal activity that may implicate you in a crime Employers use this to screen job applicants!
Don’t tag individuals in unflattering pictures that may end up costing your friends their jobs or your friendship! Hackers can use your pictures in ads or porn or use it to make a new profile page
Brand Yourself!
Keep Your Status Positive!
Avoid heated discussions/arguments on line.
Keep Your Pages Professional!
Post pictures of you getting an award, volunteering, graduating or getting a promotion!
“Follow” CEOs of companies that you may want to work.
Post links to interesting stories.
Google Yourself! Run a Google search (or Yahoo!, Bing, or your
search provider of choice)
and see what turns up.
Potential employers head to Google for an unfiltered gander into your online life,
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ how-to-google-yourself-effectivelywhatto-do-about-it/23035
Doing a search on yourself can allow you to find some problem areas and fix them. Check your privacy settings on sites such as Facebook and make sure that you “untag” any “unflattering” photos or videos of yourself.
Keep It Professional Email Addresses: yourname@gmail.com seliciahughes@aamu.edu morrischestnut@gmail.com kevinhart@yahoo.com
Don’t use emails such as keepinit100@gmail.com babygirl2013@hotmail.com hotboyz2146@yahoo.com hoochiemama@hotmail.com
Create a Secure Don’t use anything personal that someone can figure, such as: Your Name Favorite sports team Your birth city
Date of birth Mother’s name
Use a combination of letters, symbols and numbers. bulldog Bu11d0G14 student $tudEnt88 The longer the password, the better (usually 8 or more characters) Change Your Passwords Often perhaps every 90 days.
Email Etiquette Reminder When communicating with an AAMU university official, always include
Your Full Name
(Jane A. Doe)
Your Bulldog Student Number (A00123456)
Your Major
Your reason for writing the email
(Mechanical Engineering)
Use proper grammar.
Use complete sentences and punctuation.
Do not write as if you are texting.
Do not use all CAPS!!!!
Be polite!
Did You Know?
45% spend 6-8 hours per day to check a social media site
23% spent more than 8 hours
20% spent 2-4 hours
12% spent less than 2 hours
During School Hours…
64%; post or respond during school hours
15% rarely used social media during school hours
21% were not sure whether they would like to use it
80% reported that they posted or responded while completing homework;
8% would never use social media while doing homework
2% were not sure
Social Media vs Grades ď ľ
A study released by Ohio State University reveals that college students who utilize Facebook spend less time on studying and have lower grades than students who do not use the popular social networking sites. (Kalpidou, Costin, & Morris, 2011).
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College students who use the 500 million member social network have significantly lower grade-point averages (GPAs)than those who do not. (Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author, Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University)
Benefit from Social Media Find old friends Form study groups Network Engage with others Marketing Brand Yourself!
20% agreed that social media helps with school assignments 25% agreed that social media helps to make new friends 55% just used social media for fun Wang, Q., Chen, W., and Liang, Y. (2011). The Effects of Social Media on College Students. Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI
Stay Connected! On the Web https://www.aamu.edu
On Twitter https://twitter.com/aamuedu On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aamuedu On Instagram #AAMU
Any Questions
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References: www.Google.com , www.facebook.com , www.linkedin.com , www.twitter.com , www.instagram.com , www.blog.marketo.com, Wang, Q., Chen, W., and Liang, Y. (2011). The Effects of Social Media on College Students. Johnson & Wales University, Providence, RI, Alabama A&M University