Your online reputation or digital footprint is important to manage.

1. Your digital reputationorWhy digital marks are hard to erase By Marty Daniel – mdaniel@houstonisd.org http://plaidcircuitry.com ©2011

2. How are you connected?

3. The Internet never forgets Any picture you post or comment you make lives in a virtual afterlife etched into archives, algorithms and a web of hyperlinks. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/fashion/03reputation.html

4. 81% of children under the age of two currently have some form of online presence — http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20101006006722/en/Digital-Birth-Online-World

5. 93% of teens 12-17 use the Internet regularlyto …

7. Teens 69% have updated their status on social networking sites to include their physical location 51% say they’ve given out personal information online to someone they don’t know in the offline world 43% shared their first name 24% shared their email address 8% shared a personal photo of themselves 12% shared cell phone number 28% chat with people they don’t know in the offline world http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/McAfee-Secret-Teen-Lives-2010-06-22.pdf

8. COPPA COPPA or the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act requires U.S.-based websites that collect personal information from people under the age of 13 to obtain permission from parents or guardians before asking for such data http://www.coppa.org/

12. Will you show me your favorite sites?

13. How do you know this friend?

14. Where did they find this photo?Friend your teen on Facebook (but please Mom, no embarrassing baby pics or comments ;-) Encourage you teen to become creative on the Internet with Flickr, Wikis, Blogs, etc. Have an unplugged dinner at least once a week.

15. Disconnect to connect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ZrK2NryuQ&feature=player_embedded

18. http://www.facebookforparents.org/

19. http://www.facebook.com/help/?safety#!/help/?safety=parents

20. http://www.helium.com/debates/79734-should-parents-have-teens-myspace-and-facebook-passwords

21. To Be or Not To Be ….. http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/08/25/to-be-or-not-to-be-my-kids-friend-on-facebook/