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In The News Everyday. “Bullied To Death “ “More Teens Victimized By Cyberbullies” “MySpace – Your Kids In Danger?”
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In The News Everyday “Bullied To Death “ “More Teens Victimized By Cyberbullies” “MySpace – Your Kids In Danger?” “Facebook Murderer To Serve 35 Years” “Keeping Internet Predators At Bay” “Teen Killed While Texting And Driving” “Nebraska To Ban Texting While Driving” “Texting While Driving Results In One Death, One Felony and 7 Misdemeanor Charges” “Man Convicted In Texting While Driving Death” “U.S. Bans Truckers, Bus Drivers From Texting While Driving”
Highly mobile & social • At age 3, ¼ of children go online daily, increasing to about 50% by age 5. And by age 8, more than 2/3 use the internet on any given weekday • In 2010 children 8 to10 years of age spent an hour or more minutes online every day • 77% of teens aged 12 to 17 have a cell phone and 95% are now online • 7.5 million users on Facebook are younger than 13 • 73% of U.S. teens access their Facebook accounts at least once a month
A Crisis In America!!! • Cyber-Bullying • Sexting • Pornography And Obscenity • Child Predators And Strangers online • Drugs, Guns And Suicide • Text Cheating In School
Sexting • The act of sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically , primarily between mobile phones. • 70% of kids receive unwanted obscene and pornographic materials. • 55% reported sharing them with more than one person • 20% of teenagers overall, 22% of teen girls, 18% of teen boys • 11% of young teen girls ages 13-16 have sent or posted nude or • semi-nude pictures or videos of themselves. • 51% of teen girls say pressure from a guy is a reason girls send sexy messages or images. • In some states child pornography charges (2nd degree felonies) have been brought against teenagers and have to register as sex offenders.
Online Predators • There are over 650,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S. • 89,000 convicted sex offenders were removed from Myspace in ‘09 and as much as 160,000 are suspected to be on Facebook. • Find kids through social networking sites, chat rooms, etc. • Groom their targets – the are familiar with the latest music, hobbies, fashion, etc. • The targets tend to be between the ages of 11 and 15 • 100% of the cases, teens that are the victims of sexual predators have gone willingly to meet them in person • 16% of teens considered meeting someone they’ve only talked to online and 8% actually met someone they only new online.
Online Predators Grooming Tactics – Warn Your Kids!!!
Cyber Bullying • The sending or posting of damaging or cruel text or images using the internet or other digital communication devices • One million children were harassed, threatened, or cyber bullied on face book last year • 78% of school-aged children have been bullied while online • There are 2.7 million students being bullied each year by about 2.1 million students who are the bullies • Less than 10% of kids tells a parent if they have been a victim of cyber bullying • Revenge for bullying is one of the strongest motivations for school shootings • Every 30 minutes a teenager commits suicide due to bullying
What to Look for • Your child could be a victim if they: • Stops using the computer or mobile phone suddenly or when you approach • Seems nervous or edgy when a new text, email, or instant message arrives • Is hesitant about going to school or leaving the house • Seems angry, depressed or frustrated after using the computer • Avoids contact with family and friends or reluctant to attend school and social events • Grades decline/lack of appetite or has trouble sleeping
What to look for • Is Your Child the Cyber Bully? • Changes screens or closes programs quickly when you approach • Uses the computer frequently and/or at all hours of the night • Gets annoyed if they don’t have access to the computer or mobile phone • Avoids talking about what they do on the computer or on the mobile phone • Laughs excessively while online or while on the mobile phone • Uses multiple online accounts or accounts that are not theirs • Has been the target of bullies in the past
Suicide • almost 17 percent of high school students seriously considered suicide • 16.5 percent of high school students made a plan for attempting suicide • 8.5 percent of high school students attempted suicide one or more times • Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death among teenagers and young adults • 5,000 teenagers committed suicide last year
Kids are online 1 in 4 waking hours Average kid now sends and receives 3,705 text messages per month 1 text message every 8 minutes
Our Mission • To Empower Parents To Protect Their Children From The Dangerous Cellular And Online Worlds Through Our Advanced Parental Intelligence System.
At the top of the Activity tab, you will see several quick facts such as the number of active contacts your child has online and how often your child posts and texts. Easily digest when your child and his or her contacts are communicating with each other by hour. And on the Activity tab, you will be answer other fundamental questions like, “Who is ‘Friending’ my child on the social networking sites, where are they from and are they of an appropriate age?” You can see exactly how many times your child and his or her top contacts are interacting with each other. You will get a glance at what activities are taking place, right now, in a view that in fairly similar to a phone bill. If your child has a Blackberry or an Android mobile phone or they have checked in on Facebook, you will have a glance at his or her last known location. The Activity tab also shows you the most recent pictures your child has posted online and the most recent photos your child’s friends have posted of your child. Once you have created your account and signed in, you will see a high level overview of what’s happening online and on the mobile phone. You can view your child’s top contacts by rank and see whether he or she is trending up or down as well as what percentage of all digital communications he or she accounts for with your child.
Once you have adjusted your filters, don’t forget to click the “Update” button to refresh the data. You may want to filter the data to reflect only certain types of contacts. From a contact record, you can create customized contact groups by “tagging” contacts as “family” or “football team” or any other type of grouping you can think of. Since so much data is coming into the system, you may want to whittle it down using filters. You can filter by child… … by time… The pictures that appear in the dashboard can be filtered so that only new pictures are displayed or only those pictures that were posted of your child by another person. You can also filter the data to show only those messages that are associated with some sort of potentially risk behavior or person. We call these, “Notifications”. Notifications are messages that may involve references to bullying, sexting, suspicious people or activities or any number of other potential issues you would want to be made aware of. … or by the type of activity such as text messages or Facebook direct messages or a combination of activity types.
On the Live Feed tab, you can view specific messages including the date and time, the type, the contact involved in the communication and easily see if there is a Notification associated with the message. Let’s check out the Images tab. In this example, you can see that the reason the system created a Notification is that someone over 18 years old is communicating with the demo child. By clicking on the small “Full Exchange” tab associated with a message, you can see any back and forth communication taking place between your child and the contact and get more details about a specific Notification.
On the Images tab you can click the small “View Details” tab associated with any picture to view a larger version of a picture and to get more information such as who is tagged in the photo and who posted it online.
If your child uses Facebook to check-in his or her location or uses a Blackberry or Android mobile phone with GPS capabilities, his or her last known location will appear on the Family Map. Clicking the PanoRama Map view provides you with an detailed view of your child’s last known location. If your child uses any other mobile phone, he or she can be located using an optional, network-based check-in feature that will be available in early 2012.
Using the controls, you can even spin the PanoRama View so that you can see a 360 degree view of your child’s last known location.
We obviously haven’t reviewed every feature of the service but if you need help or have a questions, you can get the information you need from the Community tab.
P911 = Parent Alert Educate yourself : Know what’s happening online, where they go and what they do online. Learn the dangers; understand how they occur, the warning signs, and the consequences Communicate with your kids: Explain the dangers. Tell them to come to you whenever they accidentally see inappropriate Content, receive a request from a stranger or feel threatened by a bully. Review basic online safety rules: Avoid posting photos online, giving out personal info, “checking-in”, geo tagging etc. For older kids remind them that everything online is permanent. Tell them to think before clicking Set a good example: Try to set a good example by limiting the time you spend on social networks Know their friends: For younger children, their friends should be friends that you know in real life. For teens have them explain how they know them
