The document discusses youth safety on social media and provides the following key points: - 65% of teens use social networks and create profiles, with most visiting daily - Social media allows for both positive uses like connecting with friends as well as risks like cyberbullying, inappropriate content, and damaged reputations - While risks of online predators exist, actual cases of abuse are statistically very rare, and risks tend to correlate more with a child's offline circumstances than technology use alone - Solutions require understanding adolescent development and behavior, recognizing both benefits and amplified risks of social media, and collaborative long-term responses targeting real risks.

1. Youth Safety on the Social Web Larry Magid & Anne Collier Co-directors ConnectSafely.org Revised 1/09 © 2009 ConnectSafely.org

3. Web 1.0 …

4. On Web 2.0... -- Michael Kinsley, Slate.com, 11/27/06 “ ... everybody knows you’re a dog.”

8. Not just MySpace & Facebook YouTube, MyYearbook, Bebo, Hi5 & many niche social network sites Ning: Allows users to create their own social networks, or mini-MySpaces. Allows porn (with splash page). Twitter & Plurk: Micro-blogging - 140 characters or less. Kind of like blended chat & IM. Twitter mostly adults, Plurk a little younger. Second Life & other virtual worlds : Users create avatars that interact in a virtual world. Hulu: Fast-growing video-sharing site (153 million video streams, 9/08); popular for viewing whole shows online And some are a bit more questionable …. JuicyCampus Gossip site, total anonymity, no rules.… Stickam : Social video-streaming site with live webcam chat.

15. Teens are alive today, thanks to social-networking sites… Plan To 'Shoot Up' School Foiled Jan 12, 2009: “Deputies in Transylvania County said they got a call from a sheriff's office in New York. A teenager there apparently came forward and said she met a 15-year-old on MySpace who said he had a dangerous plan.”

17. It’s a trick question

19. Question Do you agree that the growth in young people’s use of the Internet correlates with a rise in sexual abuse against children?

20. SA Sub 1990-2005* Rate per 10,000 Children (<18) Source: NCANDS / Finkelhor & Jones, 2006 51% Decline (during the period of the Web’s existence) Answer: No Confirmed cases of child sexual abuse