1. Connecting Online

2. Connecting Online: Outline
 I do a lot on social networking sites – should I be
concerned about my privacy?
 What’s my responsibility to my networks?
 Am I using location-based social networks like
Foursquare or Facebook Places?
 What is smishing?
 How much information can people get from the
photos I have uploaded?

3. Connecting Online:
Social Networks
Social networking involves:
 What you share
 Who you share it
with
Image courtesy of Eugene Kim (Flickr)

4. Connecting Online:
Social Networks
Social networking involves:
 Responsibility to your networks
– You may be comfortable posting that photo of last
night’s party – but your friend may not
– Remember that people are your “friends”
and “followers”
– Ask for help if you need it and reach out when you
can – just as you would if faced with a similar
situation offline

5. Connecting Online: Trends
 We are going
mobile.
 More than half of all
adults in US own a
smart phone.75% of
teens.
Source: http://www.pewinternet.org/
Commentary/2012/February/Pew-Internet-Mobile.aspx
Image courtesy of Johan Larson (Flickr)

6. Connecting Online: Smishing
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Taken from YouTube

7. Connecting Online:
Mobile Strategies
 If your mobile is
compromised,
scammers can access
all the personal
information on your
phone
 Secure wifi-hotspot
security. Even if you’re
on your phone, the
same rules apply

8. Connecting Online:
Mobile Strategies
 Look up unknown app creators, and unknown
numbers
 Avoid keeping too much personal information
(ie. bank numbers and pins) on your phone

9. Connecting Online: Trends
Who can see my
location?
• Geolocation
• Geotagging
• Privacy and safety
implications of
place-based apps?

10. Connecting Online:
Geotagging
Who can see my location?
 While metadata makes it easier to organize
photos, revealing metadata of your photos can
be vulnerable to cyberstalking
 If you don’t want to be found, make sure you
disable geotagging function

11. Connecting Online: Strategies
 Consider your privacy settings. Who are you
allowing to view your location?
 If your location-based social network is linked to
a Twitter or Facebook profile, your location is
shared on these networks too

12. What’s your digital tattoo?

13. Resources
 My Social Network (c) Eugene Kim
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/eekim/2235294862/in/photostream/). CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
 Pew Research Centre. “Pew Internet: Mobile.” Pew Internet. N,d. Web. 31 July 2012.
 Browser (c) Johan Larsson (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanl/4397800453/) CC BY 2.0
 “What Is Smishing?” 16 May. 2012. YouTube. Web. 12 Aug. 2012.
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