SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY FOR PARENTS

1. SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY FOR PARENTS

2. General Safety Guidelines: • Only allow contacts you personally know • Turn of Geo-location tagging on pictures and statuses • Use a nanny app to • monitor activity on child’s • Phone • Do not need credit card or • cellphone, just an internet • connection like ipod Touch or • Kindle Fire

3. General Safety Guidelines: Link kids’ devices to your iTunes account so aware of programs they install. - Require that kids make their accounts accessible to you and follow certain ground rules: protect your passwords, set privacy controls and never transmit inappropriate pictures or words.

4. General Safety Guidelines: Online services routinely collect personal data, such as a person's birthdate or the location of their phone, and they commonly share the information with third parties for marketing.

7. Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI)

8. Sign an Internet Safety Contract with your children: http://www.fosi.org/images/stories/resources/family-online-safety-contract.pdf

9. No Contests, Questionnaires and Free Giveaways! • Warn kids against clicking on pop-ups, forwards, quizzes and other social media apps. • Attempts to obtain personal information and pictures • Do not access even if forwarded by a friend • Close the window

10. Set a Good Example • Don’t text, email, update Facebook or Tweet at every red light or during every commercial. • Set a positive example of social media usage you child will follow.

11. Teach Kids about Online Reputation • Kids don’t understand the permanence of the online world. • Stress what a digital footprint is and the impact that inappropriate messages and pictures could have on their future (college administorators, employers, etc.) • What goes online, stays online (or mobile)

12. Filtering Software and Apps • mymobilewatchdog.com • Netnanny.com • PureSightPC.com • Monitor Social Media Sites • Block Chats • Filter Content

13. 13 and OLDER only! • Set profile to private • choose who sees your pictures & posts • Can change audience of a post AFTER it is posted. • If you share something on someone’s wall, they can control who sees it • You can change who sees photos you’ve been tagged in under Timeline and Tagging in Account Settings. You can also remove the tag. The picture will still be viewable, your name will not be associated with it • You can turn off tag suggestions in other people’s pictures • You can enable tag review, which requires you approve tags of yourself in pictures. • . • .

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15. Cllickon the arrow in the top right and then scroll down to Privacy Settings. • Ensure that anything your child posts on Facebook is only visible to Friends, not the Public. • Then, methodically go through every setting — be aware, there are dozens of them — and change your child’s account to only be visible to Friends.  • http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/putting-a-13-year-old-child-safely-on-facebook/ • . • .

16. All profiles are public unless you make it private and approve followers • Does not screen content • Twitter will not remove potentially offensive material unless it directly violates terms of service • There are brands that require you enter your birthdate before following them – a feature called Buddy Media, but is optional

17. From TWITTER: “If you at one time had public Tweets, those Tweets will always be public and searchable, even after you change your settings to protected; Only Tweets made after updating your settings will be protected. Also, unprotecting your Tweets will cause any previously protected Tweets to be made public. “

18. - People will have to request to follow you; each follow request will need approval. • Your Tweets will only be visible to users you've approved • Other users will not be able to retweet your Tweets.  • Protected Tweets will not appear in Twitter search or Google search. • @Replies you send to people who aren't following you will not be seen by those users • You cannot share permanent links to your Tweets with anyone other than your approved followers.

19. INSTAGRAM • Set all photos to PRIVATE so strangers can’t see your picsand won’t automatically follow you. • Anyone who wants to see your child's photos must send a follow request which can be approved or ignored; can block other users • Limit personal info kids share such as name, school, city, etc. • Don’t allow geo tag setting (tags where you are on a map) • Do not allow anyone to follow you – lots of kids compete for followers • Instagram photos autofed to other social media sites such as Facebook, which bought Instagram last year. • -

20. SNAPCHAT • Lets a user send a text, photo or video • that purportedly self-destructs within • 10 seconds of being opened - or warns a user if the recipient takes steps to quickly capture it for posterity before it disappears. • There is a way to bypass the notification system for screenshots http://mashable.com/2013/03/14/heres-why-snapchat-photos-arent-private/ • Snapchat does not review messages sent – not monitored

21. SNAPCHAT • Messages are NOT GUARANTEED to • Disappear – NOTHING EVER DISAPPEARS! • Anyone receiving a text or photo can capture a "screenshot," taking a photo of their device's screen, and save that image. Videos can also be downloaded. • These images can then be shared on other sites like Instagram, Facebook, etc.

22. KIK MESSENGER • - Allows unlimited texting for free and effectively offers anonymity to users. • Private messaging systems are hard to monitor and easily exploited • Can add videos and pictures to text, including Kik cards that can include YouTube videos, GIFS, or drawings

23. KIK MESSENGER THE CHALLENGE: Some kids share private Kik username on public social networks. Kids post their Kik username on their Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr pages. Once someone knows their username, anyone can send them a message. Instagram and Twitter are full of #kikme requests - This app is especially popular among younger teens who have a limited texting plan or only an iPod Touch.

24. KIK MESSENGER • Kids should use different usernames for their Kik, Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr accounts. It is easy to contact someone if they have the same username for all their accounts.  • Kids should enable the “Ignore New People” feature under Notifications. • - When a friend signs up for Kik with their phone number or email that you already have saved on your phone, Kik recognizes that you’re friends and sends you both a notification to connect on Kikautomatically

25. KIK MESSENGER • Kids should use different usernames for their Kik, Twitter, Instagram or Tumblr accounts. It is easy to contact someone if they have the same username for all their accounts.  • Kids should enable the “Ignore New People” feature under Notifications. • When a friend signs up for Kik with their phone number or email that you already have saved on your phone, Kik recognizes that you’re friends and sends you both a notification to connect on Kikautomatically

26. KIK MESSENGER • When a friend signs up for Kik with their phone number or email that you already have saved on your phone, Kik recognizes that you’re friends and sends you both a notification to connect on Kik automatically • Kik has address matching turned on automatically when you install app. You can also block users on Kik from contacting you. • There is no logout option • No parental monitoring options

27. Makes users enter their age • before registering. Vine is • considered 17+. iPhones have parental controls to limit age restrictions • No way of verifying age • Can flag inappropriate content and block users from your feed • Blocking an account will prevent the user from following you and viewing your profile, but will still be able to view/ comment on your videos that appear in popular search results for tags.

28. Profiles and videos on Vine are public, no way of controlling who sees your feed • Hashtags such as #porn have been deactivated, but not all suggestive words are

29. http://parentingtodayskids.com/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/instagram-and-snapchat-kids_n_2899732.html http://www.thetreenetwork.com/the-danger-of-instagram-and-kik-messenger/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/putting-a-13-year-old-child-safely-on-facebook/ www.kidsprivacy.com http://kidsprivacy.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/what-parents-need-to-know-about-kik/ http://www.pcworld.com/article/251786/uknowkids.html

30. THANK YOU! DEBBIE WILLIAMS Chief Content Officer/Co-Founder 850.607.6981 x 101 debbie@sproutcontent.com www.sproutcontent.com debbie@sproutcontent.com