SOCIAL MEDIA The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

VALIDATION Likes, Why post? See Friends hanging out… “Why wasn’t I invited?” Seeing highlights of someone’s life online… Do you wish you were them? Good: Make you strive to be better.

DISCONNECT We look at our phone, not at our friends. Girl’s at baseball game called out for selfies…they had no idea. Photographer taking pictures of people with their phones and remove the phone. Sitting around a dinner table – Everyone is on their phone. Challenge: Go 24 hours without your phone, tablet, tv can you do it? How can this affect your social life? Good of needing to be on a device?

DANGERS Tweet, Blog, Snapchat irresponsible behaviors.  What can it effect? College acceptance Social acceptance Discipline from adults Discipline from the police Whose else is watching? Protect your information, photos, and passwords Don’t be friends with just anyone. Jennifer Lawrence Posting Locations and Check in

THE SEEMINGLY INNOCENT What is cyberbullying? What kinds of things get passed around? How do you handle it? How should you handle it? Defamatory – what does that mean? Are their laws against this? Yes! Something that could be considered a joke could go too far. “Go Kill Yourself” Texts/Tweets Making profiles for other people without permission. Posting silly lies rumors as a joke. Trolling- Posting rude and annoying things Just because your aren’t face to face with someone it is still bullying Cyberbullying is a felony.

SPREADING THE WORD Not Always True Huffington Post: Blog and Editorials Buzz Feed: Entertainment News CatchNews Some Good: Ice Bucket Challenge

HACKING Hackers accessing your information, pictures, and videos Chatting with people leading to location identified Talking Tom - Cat accesses videos and your location Buying online - lock on top Click happy - certain sites are viruses

EASILY INFLUENCED Similar to Validation. Teens see something online that is not best for them and aspire to it. Influence teens to sext, do drugs, alcohol… Why are people more likely to do things that they see on the internet. Ice Bucket Challenge – Spread the word and was positive but was influential.

STUDENTS RATE SOCIAL MEDIA GOOD OR BAD Fill out survey online: On index card give top two social media topics you feel most passionate about.