Presentation for International Conference at Muscat

1. INFORMATION TRANSFER THROUGH SOCIAL
NETWORKING:
PAST TO PRESENT
by
Sudhir Kumar Gupta
Asstt. Librarian
Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture
and Forestry, Solan (H.P.)
&
Sudesh Kumar Sood
Sr. College Librarian(SG), Govt. P.G.
College, Una (H.P.)

2. Objectives of the Presentation
 Define social networking
 History of Social networking
 Facts about online socializing
 View examples of social networking sites
 Advantages of social networking
 Disadvantages of social networking
 Safety tips for youth
 Safety tips for parents to share with their
children

3. What is a Network? node
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Web Definition : A set of nodes, points, or locations connected by means of
data, voice, and video communications for the purpose of
exchange.

4. Social Networks
A social network is a description
of the social structure between
individuals or organizations. It
indicates the ways in which they
are connected through various
social familiarities ranging from
casual acquaintance to close
familiar bonds.

5. Sharing Points

6. Social networking sites provide
teens and young adults with a
virtual environment where they
share stories, pictures, videos,
and participate in chat rooms
with friends and acquaintances.

7. By providing information about
yourself using blogs, chat rooms, E-
mail, or instant messaging, you can
communicate either within a
limited community, or with the
world at large.

8. What is Social Networking &
Media?
 The interaction between a group of people who share
a common interest; Using social contacts to network;
Using internet's network groups
 A phenomenon that has recently taken over the web,
allowing more connectivity and interaction between
web user
 Social networking-new means of communicating and
sharing information between two or more individuals
on an online community.

9. What’s in the Social Media
toolbox?
 Blogs
 Provides human voice; forum for feedback
 Social Networks
 Sharing of personal interests; activity feed
 Communities
 Focused environment; like-minded users
 Micro-blogs
 Sharing of links, news; collaborative, real-time discussion
 Video & Photo sharing
 Compelling, powerful multimedia; easy to share, embed;
creative ways

10. Examples of Social Networking Sites
 Facebook- general
 Myspace.com – general
 Classmates.com - school, college, work, and the
military
 Twitter-micro-blogging
 YouTube-videos
 Craigslist-classifieds and personal ads

12. History
Early social networking websites:
• 1995 - classmates.com
• focused on ties between former schoolmates
• 1997 – sixdegrees.com
• focused on indirect ties

13. History, cont’d
Modern social networking websites:
• 2002 – Friendster
• now mostly used in Asia
• 2003 – Myspace
• bought by News Corporation (parent company of Fox) in
2005
• most popular social networking site in 2006

14. History, cont’d
• 2004 - Facebook (founded by Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard as the
facebook.com)
• largest and fastest growing site in the World
• initially membership limited to Harvard students, but was
expanded to other colleges in the Ivy League; later expanded
further to include any university student, then high school
students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and above
• 2005 - Bebo
• stands for “blog early, blog often”

16. What you can do on Facebook
 Find friends by name or email
 View and share information with friends
 Post public messages on “Wall”
 Send private messages
 Upload pictures, videos, links
 Stay in touch with friends in family, work, school, Rotary
 Average Facebook user has 120 friends
 Join pages, groups, and/or causes of interest
 Become fan, member, or supporter of your favorite interests
 Post messages on “Wall” or group discussion topics
 Find Facebook applications to do things of interest
 Track travel by city around the World
 Instant message and voice chat services such as Skype

17. Facts and Figures
 As of 2007, there were more than 300 known social
networking sites.
Source: wikipedia.org
 32% of teens have experienced some type of harassment
online.
 94% of teens are online, or have access to the Internet.
 49% of teens who use social networking websites use it
to make friends with people they don’t know.
Source: Pew Internet Research, 2009

18. Facts and Figures (continued)
 65% of teens have at least one online profile.
 Of those 65%, 32% have received some type of harassment
online.
 15% have had private information forwarded without
their permission
 13% received threatening messages
 13% said someone spread a rumor about them online
 6% had someone post an embarrassing picture of them
online without permission
Source: Pew Internet Research, 2009

19. Facts and Figures (continued)
 2 in 5 teens tell their parents nothing about what they do
online.
 1 in 4 teens who have restrictions online can find a way
around them.
 44% of parents do not limit what their children do
online whatsoever.
Source: Cox Communications, 2009
 50% of all teens have a computer in their bedroom.
Source: University of Toronto, 2009

20. Advantages
 Build Meaningful Relationship
 Generates Trafic
 Help Develop Links
 Increase Visibility
 Bring Business and Opportunities

21. Disadvantages
 Steal your identity
 Can access your e-mail and financial information
 Downloading malicious software (Virus)
 Social networking can be both overwhelming and
addictive

22. Tips for
Safe
Online
Social
Networking

23. Tips for Socializing Safely
 Think about how different sites work before
deciding to join a site.
 Keep some control over the information you post.
 Keep vital information to yourself.
 Make sure your screen name doesn’t reveal too
much about you.

24. Tips for Socializing Safely Online (continued)
 Post only information that you are comfortable
with others seeing and knowing about you.
 Remember, once your information is posted,
you can’t take it back. Someone can forward
this information and millions of people have
access.
 Consider not posting your picture.
 Don’t flirt with strangers online.
Source: Federal Trade Commission – www.ftc.gov

25. Tips for Parents

26. Tips for Parents
 Use the Internet with your children.
 Teach your children never to give out personal
information.
 Instruct your child never to plan a face-to-face
meeting with online acquaintances.
 Establish clear ground rules for Internet use within
your family.
 Tell your children not to respond if they receive
offensive or dangerous email, chat requests, or other
types of communication and to tell you when this
occurs.
Source: Get Net Wise

27. Tips for Parents (continued)
 Place your computer in a room that’s open and
accessible to all family members.
 Consider installing software filters that prevent your
child from entering personal information.
 Consider installing monitoring software that
prevents your child from entering personal
information.
 Many networking sites have valuable safety
information.

28. Tips for Youth
 Remember, your profile is on a public space.
 People aren’t always who they say they are.
 Harassment, hate speech, and inappropriate content
should be reported. Tell your parents or an adult if
this happens.
 Don’t mislead people into thinking that you’re older
or younger than you really are.
 Don’t post anything that would embarrass you later.
Source: myspace.com

29. Tips for Youth (continued)
 Always follow your family’s rules for using the
Internet.
 Don’t open up emails, files, or web pages that you
get from people you don’t really know or trust.
 Don’t ever do anything that could cost your family
money unless your parents are there to help you
do it.
 Don’t ever give out your password.
Source: Get Net Wise

30. Positive Aspects for Social Networking
• Ease of access to recent trends/topics
• Digg
• Faster communication over longer distances
• Facebook, Myspace, Digg
• Big audience
• Blogging (Blogger, Livejournal, Youtube,
Wordpress)
• Equating computer to sociability; second life
• Facebook, Myspace

31. Thank You!!