Nov 02 2009

St. Pius X November 2, 2009 www.catholicYMblog.com

SURF’S UP!

E-Mail Addresses

Adults: Get an email address and keep it!

Teens: The average teen changes their email address 2-3 times each year. www.hotmail.com www.yahoo.com www.usa.com

E-Mail Tid-Bits

Spamming, Flooding

Opt-In / Opt-Out

Responsible Fowarding

Bcc vs. Cc

Viruses

Messengers & Chat Rooms

IRC (internet relay chat)

ICQ

AOL Instant Messenger (IM)

Chat Rooms

Chatting Safely

Anonymous (good and bad)

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)

Picture, URL, and Email Sharing

Moderation and Regulation

Concerns ?

Teens Are Looking For…

Entertainment

Culture

Information

Research

Graphics

Animation

Pointing Teens to Sites

Personal recommendation is the best promotion for a web site

Review sites before making recommendations

Who is the author? Values? Biases?

Where do they link?

January 1994 Swarthmore student Justin Hall creates first blog ever, links.net December 1997 Online diarist Jorn Barger coins the term “Weblog” for “logging the Web.” April 1999 Programmer Peter Merholz shortens “Weblog” to “blog.” August 1999 Blogger rolls out the first popular, free blog-creation service. February 2002 Heather Armstrong is fired for discussing her job on her blog, Dooce. “Dooced” becomes a verb: “Fired for blogging.” December 2002 Talking Points Memo highlights Trent Lott’s racially charged comments; thirteen days later, Lott resigns from his post as Senate majority leader. December 2004 Merriam-Webster declares “blog” the “ Word of the Year.” August, 2004 DScottMiller.com

Gaumer transferred to UMBC in 2004 and lived in Walker Avenue Apartments for a year and a half. Almost immediately he began to build a reputation in some circles. He found female UMBC students via popular social networking websites MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/) and The Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/) and contacted them over AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). He would flirt with women online, sometimes sending them pictures of his bare chest or genitals. Those who turned him down were sometimes met with a string of harsh profanity. Those who responded favorably he would invite to his apartment, where, according to his roommates, he would sometimes cook them lavish meals, then invite the woman to watch a movie in his room. Often, they would have sex. Based on their own count, and what Gaumer told them, Gaumer’s roommates estimate that by the end of his first year at UMBC, he had slept with more than 40 individual women.

Blogging / Facebook

It is web-based technology

It is a creative outlet

It is an opportunity to express ones self to a broader audience.

Blogging / Facebook

Too much self-disclosure

Too much attention seeking

Too much false sense of anonymity

Guidelines for Parents

Talk with teens about what they can and cannot do on-line

Be open with your teens and encourage them to Come to you if they encounter a problem

Learn Everything you can about the internet

Learn Everything you can about the internet

Check out Blocking, Filtering, and Ratings Applications

Blogging The News Beyond My Own Self The News I Can Use I am The News

Blogging I am The News I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life

Internet and The Cardinal Virtues

Prudence .

Prudence

Prudence is the virtue that disposes practical reason to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it

Protection of self and family (Credit, Viruses, Personal Safety)

Discretion in what is personally shared

Consider consequences of public broadcast of opinion.

Prudence

Justice

Prudence

Justice

Justice towards one another disposes one to respect the rights of each and to establish in human relationships the harmony that promotes equity with regard to persons and to the common good.

Remain respectful

Protect others

Prudence

Justice

Fortitude

Prudence

Justice

Fortitude

Fortitude is the moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of the good.

Checking in with Parents

Surfing the Net in public

Remaining skeptical regarding “anonymous friends.”

Prudence

Justice

Fortitude

Temperance

Prudence

Justice

Fortitude

Temperance

Temperance is the moral virtue that moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created goods.

Maintaining modesty

Maintaining limits and boundaries

Promote a culture of respect for the dignity and value of the human person, a dialogue rooted in the sincere search for truth (and) for friendship that is not an end in itself, but is capable of developing the talents of each person to put them at the service of the human community."

Disciples Now