The Social Media Use Policy Group from Salerno Secondary School in Salthill present their final project from their studies of Young Minds Online - a course developed by Digital Training Institute.

2. Social Media Use Policy

3. Social Media Use Policy Group: Aoife Donovan, Pheobe Evans, Alissa Jusufi,
Amanda Keady, Leona Keady, Kasey Kelly, Aoife Lally & Katie Lambe with IT
Teachers Mr. Fogarty and Miss Waterstone and Joanne Sweeney Burke & Jillian
O‟Toole of Digital Training Institute. Photo by John McDonnell.

4. Research
Our group researched 10 areas of social media and developed our own
Social Media Use Policy around these areas,
which were:
• Sharing
• Geo Tagging
• Cross- Promotion
• Language
• Images/Videosaring
• Privacy Settings
• Emotion
• Profile Information
• Responding to criticism

5. Privacy Settings
Set your profile to friends only, so only friends can view
your profile, send you messages, info, view your pictures,
etc.
Do not accept friend requests from strangers.

6. Profile Information
• Don‟t post any unnecessary personal information to your
profile, i.e. home address, phone number, email etc.
• Do you really want everyone to know your relationship
status?

7. Protect Your Tweets

8. Content
• Only upload content of yourself that you wouldn‟t mind
employers seeing, after all most employers do check
your social media sites before hiring you.
• Make sure there is nothing on your profile that you
don‟t want on it.
• Don‟t have anything on your profile that somebody
would find offensive or anything that would stop an
employer from employing you.

9. Sharing
• Don‟t share videos or images that are offensive to
anyone in anyway.
• Don‟t post anything that you wouldn‟t want people to
know about you or that could affect any jobs you want
in the future.
• Be careful what you share on social networking sites
once its posted it is there forever even if you think you
have deleted it.
• Don‟t share anything too personal on your social
media pages.

10. Responding to Criticism
● Don‟t get too caught up in the commotion.
● If you don‟t have anything nice to say, say nothing.
● If you must, defend yourself but then move on,
remember „sticks and stones may break my bones
but words will never hurt me‟.
● Don‟t argue with someone online, people who have
nothing to do with it can get involved and make it
worse. If you are going to have an argument with
someone do it in person.

11. • If you do respond to criticism do not use inappropriate
language, keep it short but do not say anything
offensive. Just talk to the person face to face. to the
person face to face.

12. Geo-tagging
● Do not tag exactly where you are.
● If you are alone do not tag where you are, you do not know
who could be viewing it.
● If you are not at home do not tag you are not there as you
don‟t know who could be watching your house.
● Do not tag where you are if it will affect what people will think
of you or if it will reflect badly on you.
● Do not tag yourself somewhere if you should not be there.

13. Geotagging is the process of adding
geographicial identification to social media
sites. Facebook’s version of geo-tagging lets
you tag your location on status updates or
photos.

14. Cross - Promotion
● Don‟t promote products or services that you wouldn‟t
normally buy.
● Don‟t promote products that might offend other people.
● Do not promote something that could affect peoples opinions
of you or what people think of you.
● Do not promote something that may or will reflect badly on
you.
● Don‟t promote something that you shouldn‟t use or wouldn‟t
use.

15. Images & Videos
• Set your account to “Friends Only” so only your friends can
view your photos.
• Anything that ever goes on social networking sites belongs to
the site e.g Facebook, Twitter etc., not you!
• Don‟t upload any inappropriate images or images you‟ll
regret posting, remember even if you delete an image it will
always be on record somewhere on the internet and will
never be well and truly gone
• Only upload and tag people in photos that approve or give
you permission to do so.

16. Conclusion
• We hope that after doing our project it will help to
highlight the danger of being careless online.
• We encourage teenagers to follow our use policy to
create a safe environment online.
• We hope you learned and gained some knowledge
from this presentation about social media and use
your newly gained knowledge for the future.