This document discusses staying safe on social media and avoiding oversharing. It provides tips for determining if you overshare on social media by checking if others complain about your phone use or if social media hurts your job or school performance. It advises considering pruning social media friends and thinking carefully before posting pictures or comments due to potential lifelong regret. Employers may deny jobs to applicants with negative online content. Cyberbullying is defined as sending mean or threatening messages online. The document concludes with defining digital citizenship and providing keys to it such as using strong passwords, protecting private information, obtaining permission before sharing others' work, and communicating professionally online.

1. Social Media and You
STAYING SAFE AND SMART

2. Oversharing

3. Do You Overshare?
1. Do people in your life complain about how much time you spend on your
phone when you’re with them?
2. Has your job/school performance suffered due to time spent using social
media?
3. When you wake up in the morning, is the first thing you reach for your
smartphone?
4. Is no meal complete without it being Instagrammed?
5. Do you check your email or social network while using the restroom?

4. Avoiding the Oversharing Trap
Consider de-cluttering your social media friends lists.
Rule of thumb: do you plan on reaching out to that
person in the next six months?
Remember that 15 minutes of laughter can lead to a
lifetime of regret. Think before you publish a
questionable picture or comment.
Your social media footprint makes a difference in the
workplace. Many employers admit to not giving
interviews after reading negative content involving an
applicant online.

5. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/oversharing-think-before-you-post

6. Cyberbullying

7. What is Cyberbullying?
• Sending mean messages or threats to a person’s email account or cell phone
• Spreading rumors online or through texts
• Posting hurtful or threatening messages on social networking sites or web pages
• Stealing a person’s account information to break into their account and send
damaging messages
• Pretending to be someone else online to hurt another person
• Taking unflattering pictures of a person and spreading them through cell phones
or the Internet
• Sexting, or circulating sexually suggestive pictures or messages about a person

8. Harvard Rescinds Acceptances for At Least Ten
Students for Obscene Memes
• http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/6/5/2021-offers-rescinded-memes/

9. Digital Citizenship

11. Digital Citizenship
https://youtu.be/FwvGgeKUqAk

12. Keys to Digital Citizenship
• Strong Passwords
• Protect your private information
• Don’t overshare personal information
• Be smart with your photographs
• Turn off geo-tagging
• Property/Copyrights
• Obtain permission to use other people’s work
• Protect devices that connect to the internet
• Be professional when communicating online

13. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/pledge_poster

14. Questions?