Transcript Internet Safety Social Media Handout

Laura Hubbs-Tait, Ph.D.
Regents Professor
Cooperative Extension Parenting Specialist
Human Development and Family Science
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Consider the source:
 Data sources for information on children
and the internet:
 Marketing Research – for profit, selling ads
 Marketing to kids – games, phones, music, etc.
 Marketing to parents – “protect your kids”
 Survey Research Centers – nonprofit
 Social Science Research Publications –
usually university sponsored research
What does marketing research tell us?
Child Wise (United Kingdom)
http://prezi.com/2itsvqxabjlf/children-and-their-media-2012/
Highlights of Child Wise press release: 5 to 16 year olds:
1. 71% have a mobile phone with internet access
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51% use that mobile phone to access the internet
2. Average more than 60 minutes/day on mobile phone
activities other than calls.
3. More than half had accessed Facebook in the previous week
4. 39% of participants who had visited Facebook were under 13
5. Media total: 5.2 hours
2.5 hours TV + 1.6 hours gaming + 1.1 hours mobile phone=5.2
http://www.tnooz.com/2012/01/26/news/kids-today-travellers-of-the-future-and-how-theyconsume-media-now/
So what about U.S.?-USA Today from Ypulse (profit)
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Teens are using other social media such as
Foursquare and Tumblr (microblog like Twitter).
Facebook wants children under 13 to have a
Facebook page with parental supervision.
Do teens want more privacy (response to parents as
Facebook friends) and so turn to apps and networks
with less supervision?
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-06-20/facebookteens/55723500/1
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Other media used by teens: Instagram, a new "app"
for sharing photos; ooVoo video chat; blogs and
microblogs
Not-for-profit research:
http://www.pewinternet.org/Trend-Data-(Teens)/OnlineActivites-Total.aspx
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Teen Internet Use (799
parents and 770 teens)
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93% of 12- to 17-year old
“teens” access the
internet (teens: 95%)
Teen Social Networking
Use
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75% participate in a social
network (80% of teens
say “yes”)
So what about U.S.? - marketing research
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Much more of an alarmist picture:
Toptenreviews
http://facebook-parental-controlsreview.toptenreviews.com/30-statistics-aboutteens-and-social-networking.html
Note that this is targeted toward marketing
software for parental controls of social media
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Youth Internet Safety Surveys: 2000, 2005, 2010
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Three categories of online dangers surveyed each
year:
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/internet-crimes/papers.html
Down but still
disturbing
Down but still
disturbing
Up - Includes
cyberbullying
Jones, L.M., Mitchell, K.J. & Finkelhor, D. (2012). Trends in youth
Internet victimizations: Findings from three youth Internet safety
surveys, 2000 – 2010. Journal of Adolescent Health, 50: 179-186.
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Stanford University researchers - March 2012
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8- to 12-year-old girls: media (video, music, homework, phone
talk, email/posts/text/chat), F2F communication, and well-being
Media multi-tasking = additional media used when a child is
using one already. Mean = 1.4 (i.e., 1.4 above the first)
What predicts SLEEP?
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Negatively: TV in room, video use of media, online
communication use, cell phone ownership, age.
 Above and beyond these: media multi-tasking
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Positively: face-to-face (F2F) communication
What predicts # friends who are bad influence?
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Phone talk, online talk/chat/posts/email, video use,
and media multitasking
F2F communication was negatively related – the more
F2F, the lower the number of bad influence friends
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“Cute young adult websites”: not cute for pre-teens
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www.someecards.com
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www.reddit.com
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Parenting style: authoritative
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Parent-child attachment: secure
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Warm and affectionate with high limits and
expectations
Sensitive and responsive to the needs of
the infant/child – from birth
Open and frequent communication
 Related to attachment and parenting style
 Can be improved in parent education
programs
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Check the History in a Browser –
Records 20 days – or more.
 History can be set to delete on Exit.
 To check this, Open Internet Explorer, Click on Tools (if it's
not visible hit the Alt key), then Internet Options. In the
middle of the window you will see a checkbox titled "Delete
browsing history on Exit."
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 This checkbox should NOT be checked.
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Free software: K9 Web Protection by BlueCoat
(www.k9webprotection.com).
This tool installs to your Windows or Mac and links to web
browsers.
 You set a password to it so that your children can't access
it or sites you don't want them to visit.
 Instantly blocks harmful sites (pornography, violence,
gambling
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