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What is Social Media?
Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media use web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media monologues into social media dialogues. They support the democratization of knowledge and information and transform people from content consumers to content producers.
Keeping your kids safe online.
Check out the FBI and US Justice Departments guide to internet safety. Let's keep our children safe! Statistics show:
Internet Fraud and Scams
Internet fraud uses online services to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to others connected with the scheme. Internet fraud can occur in chat rooms, e-mail, message boards, or Web sites. The FBI offers their knowledge on Common Fraud Schemes and what to do if you suspect you are being targeted.
What is Facebook?
Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 and operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. Anyone age 13 or older can become a Facebook user.
Social media are media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media use web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media monologues into social media dialogues. They support the democratization of knowledge and information and transform people from content consumers to content producers.
Keeping your kids safe online.
Check out the FBI and US Justice Departments guide to internet safety. Let's keep our children safe! Statistics show:
- 28% of online teens say they use code words on a daily basis to hide online conversations from their parents
- More than one fourth (27%) of teens report that they have talked online about sex with someone they have never met in person
- 81% of parents of online teens say that teens aren't careful enough when giving out information about themselves online and 79% of online teens agree with this
- 65% of all parents and 64% of all teens say that teens do things online that they wouldn't want their parents to know about
- About one-third of youth (34%) admit to regularly communicating online with people they did not know in person
- Over half (51%) of parents either do not have, or do not know if they have, software on their computers to monitor where their teenagers go online and with whom they interact.
Internet Fraud and Scams
Internet fraud uses online services to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to others connected with the scheme. Internet fraud can occur in chat rooms, e-mail, message boards, or Web sites. The FBI offers their knowledge on Common Fraud Schemes and what to do if you suspect you are being targeted.
What is Facebook?
Facebook is a social networking website launched in February 2004 and operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add people as friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better. Anyone age 13 or older can become a Facebook user.
What is Twitter?Twitter is a social networking and micrblogging service that enables its users to send and read other user messages called tweets. Tweets are text-base posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default, however senders can restrict message delivery to their friends list. Users may subscribe to other author tweets - this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers.
What is YouTube?YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. You Tube is a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, CA, and uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, BBC, VEVO and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.