1. Young People’s Ministry & Media Emerging Generations Training Bothell UMC | 10.03.09

2. Why we’re talking about this To help us determine how, or whether, we want to pursue these outlets; This is where many of our young people are. It increases our digital literacy.

3. Overview What is social media? Why use it? How are youth using it? Next steps Ideas Questions?

4. What is Social Media? Conversations that are happening using online and mobile tools

6. What is it? A social structure made up of individuals or organizations that are tied by one more more types of interdependency values ideas friendship

7. Types of Social Media Blogs Multimedia Forums Micro blogs

8. Youth & Media Stats Of Americans age 13-54, 65.7% of them have at least one video-enabled mobile device, up from 44.9% in a 2006 study* Half of all teenagers use an audio-only mp3 player each day, while one in four watch video on an mp3 player. http://www.frankwbaker.com/mediause.htm

9. Youth & Media Stats

10. Facebook Facts Launched in Feb. 2004 as a site for university students and faculty; in 2007 opened to all Active users March 2008: 68 million Today: Over 300 million

11. What youth are thinking If you're not on MySpace, you don't exist. My mom doesn't let me out of the house very often, so that's pretty much all I do, is I sit on Facebook and talk to people and text and talk on the phone, cause my mom's always got some crazy reason to keep me in the house.

12. Basic Principles Be authentic Be respectful Be open

13. How to jump in Create a facebook page Open a Twitter account and search for topics or trends Create a YouTube channel for your church or group Start a blog and invite youth/young adults to contribute Create your own network on Ning