kids and technology (facebook) for media camp nottingham

Kids and Technology (Facebook)

Author: Sylwia Presley, May 2011

What do we think?

US stats

• Of the 20 million minors who ac<vely used Facebook in the past year, 7.5 million—or more than one-‐third—were younger than 13 and not supposed to be able to use the site.

• Among young users, more than 5 million were 10 and under, and their accounts were largely unsupervised by their parents. • One million children were harassed, threatened, or subjected to other forms of cyberbullying on the site in the past year.

EU stats

• Social networking sites (SNS) are popular among European children: 38% of 9-‐12 year olds and 77% of 13-‐16 year olds have a profile. Facebook is used by one third of 9-‐16 year old internet users.

•One in five 9-‐12 year olds have a Facebook profile, rising to over 4 in 10 in some countries. •Age restric<ons are only par<ally effec<ve, although there are many differences by country and SNS.

•Younger children are more likely than older to have their profile ‘public’. A quarter of 9-‐12 year old SNS users have their profile ‘set to public’. •Parental rules for SNS use, when applied, are partly effec<ve, especially for younger children.

•One fiZh of children whose profile is public display their address and/or phone number, twice as many as for those with private profiles. •The features designed to protect children from other users if needed are not easily understood, by many younger. and some older children.

What do we do?

Ask the authorities to help?

Become their friends?

Failbook.com

Educate ourselves?

Embrace the technology?

Guide them, do it WITH them…listen!

Learn from them!

Interesting links

Few good reads: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/media@lse/research/EUKidsOnline/Home.aspx http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/consumer-reports-7-5-million-facebook-users-are-under-minimum-age/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/16/california-bill-to-give-parents-access-to-kids-facebook-pages/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42957561/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/more-parents-help-kids-cheat-facebook-age-rules/ http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2011/june/electronics-computers/state-of-the-net/facebook-concerns/ http://mashable.com/2010/05/03/facebook-parents/ http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/03/23/facebook.underage.users/index.html http://www.connectsafely.org/pdfs/fbparents.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hPZ44LHJwc http://www.adorasvitak.com/

Contact

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Sylwia Presley www.nfpvoice.com E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: 07850 138 178 Twitter: presleysylwia or nfpvoice Skype: sylwia.presley