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What Will They Text Next: Teen, Social Media, and Technology

Explore the impact of technology on teens' lives, risks of social media, parental concerns, and ways to protect and guide teenagers in the digital world.

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What Will They Text Next: Teen, Social Media, and Technology

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  1. What Will They Text Next: Teen, Social Media, and Technology

  2. The Screen Challenge Take a moment to total how much time you spend daily looking at a screen. Then, Take some time to estimate how much time your teenager spends looking at a screen.

  3. Kids Today… • 78% of teens have cell phones, almost half own smartphones • 1 in 4 are “cell-mostly” internet users • 23% of teens have a tablet • 81% use social networking sites • 8-18 year olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes to using entertainment media across a typical day • 100% of EHS students have a laptop and access to the internet (The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2010; PEW Research Center, 2014) 100% of EHS students have laptops

  4. POP Quiz!

  5. What Social Media Are They Using?

  6. What are they posting?

  7. Brain Changes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HffWFd_6bJ0

  8. Dangers of Social Media What we know about teens: • They are constantly trying to define themselves. • They crave positive feedback to help them see how their identity fits into their world. • They use social media for this feedback... but they are looking in a dangerous place. How is this harmful: • The danger exists in the possibility of a very public rejection because negative feedback is there for anyone and everyone to see. • Another danger is that teens ask for feedback without learning first that not everyone will respond in a supportive way.

  9. What Can You Do • In order to teach your children how to seek feedback from genuine sources, parents should start early by helping their children identify trustworthy sources. • Most importantly, parents need to reinforce that the most influential voice should come from within.

  10. Engage Your Family • Engage your teen in meaningful conversation about internet use • Talk to other parents, deans, counselors • Validate your teen's reality and their need to be connected • Engage your child in drafting the rules for the family: • guidelines for use • consequences for breaking those rules • Model appropriate use of technology: • minimize texting • don't use cell phone/laptop at meals • don't use cell phone in the car

  11. Let Your Teen Know • That you have the right to check their laptop, phone, etc.. • What apps/media are okay and what are not • That you need to know their passwords • What their online responsibilities are: • Protecting their privacy • Not engaging in cyber bullying

  12. What Are You Worried About? • Invading your kid’s privacy? • Not feeling comfortable with being on social media? • That they have secret accounts? Just as you would establish ground rules and do diligence in person, there is a need to do the same things - or even more - with the internet.

  13. Other Parental Concern • 81% are worried about how much advertisers can learn about their kid’s through their behavior online • 72% are worried their kid is interacting with people they do not know online • 70% are worried about how their online activity might affect their future academic or employment opportunities • 60% are worried about their kids reputation online (Pew Research Center, 2013)

  14. Apps to Protect Your Kid in the Car • Canary • MamaBear Child Tracker app • Rapid Protect • OnStar Family Link • Travelers Insurance IntelliDrive • Progressive's Snapshot • AT&T DriveMode • Sprint Drive First • Cellcontrol • Drive Scribe

  15. Apps to Protect Your Teen’s Phone • My Mobile Watchdog • Mobile Spy • Text Guard • WebWatcher

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