Facebooking for the Future Karen Huseman, Cathy Passananti, Tim Schmidt, and Travis Smith.

Facebooking for the Future

Karen Huseman, Cathy Passananti, Tim Schmidt, and Travis Smith

Overview of Facebook

• History• What it is• What it is not• Presently popular uses• Potential Future uses

Reasons for use of Facebook

• Popular• Voyeurism• Contact in the virtual age• Easy to connect with those with

similar interests (Groups)• Similar to rise in online dating

phenomenon

Popularity

Issues to for Students(Values Based)

• Privacy• Security

• Monetary• Physical• Emotional• Passwords and personal info

• Legality• Respect (for self and others)• Control over Access

Issues Cont…

• Review of Judicial and legal processes associated with facebook

Tutorial

• Creating a Profile• What is appropriate?• Who is looking at your profile?

• Judicial Consequences• Job

• Privacy• Uploading of photos/tagged or

untagged• Removal

Implementation

• Linked as part of student registration website

• Required to complete tutorial prior to the start of each semester

Evaluation in Tutorial

• Joining groups/parties• Questions

• Is your address in profile, cell phone• Are you tagged? Have you tagged others• What groups did you join• What privacy option did you choose• What is on your wall

• Do you check/remove items

• Do you know the 1st and last names of all your friends?

Reasoning for question

• Allow students to make informed decisions without encouraging/discouraging use of facebook.com and similar sites.

Privacy

• Logged in from• Personal info

• Phone (cell and home)• Email• Location (where from, where you live

now)• Pictures

• Tagged and Untagged

Two Path Tutorial

• Users vs. Non-users• Users

• Questions about their personal settings

• Non-Users• Straight Tutorial on aspects and

possible uses (+ and -) of facebook

Issues

• Make people more aware of positive and negative uses and consequences of Facebook use

• Students/Professors can be sued for libel for postings if pervasive and inflammatory• Wagner v. Miskin, 2003 ND 69, 660 N.W.2d

593 • Need to be aware of who has access

• Judicial Affairs, Campus Police, Possible Employers

Reasoning

• To explain all of the features and real life consequences of people’s choices when creating a profile

• To inform people about signing up for Facebook (not encourage or discourage)

Online Safety Tutorial

Introduction

• This tutorial will introduce you to some key concepts about online security with a focus on Facebook.com

• There will be a short quiz at the end, so please read carefully.

Access

• If you have access to a school alumni email address, then you can easily register for and use Facebook. To access Facebook you must have a valid school email account (or a college affiliated alumni account). This is both to direct your login and to confirm your affiliation with the community that you are trying to join.

• The edu account must also be supported by Facebook. To accommodate alumni, Facebook also accepts alumni forwarding accounts. Facebook is currently looking into other methods for confirming school alumni status.

• Facebook also has a new high school network. The high school and college networks are completely separate. This means that features like searching, messaging, poking, and inviting people to be friends are restricted to the network you use. This is primarily for security reasons, but also because many people prefer it this way.

Privacy

• Facebook has several privacy settings that allow you to restrict access to your profile.

• These settings are:• Normal- Everyone can search for you. Your friends

and everyone at your school can see your profile • Reserved- Everyone can search for you. Only your

friends and friends of your friends at your school can see your profile.

• Paranoid- Only people at your school can search for you. Only your friends can see your profile. Your wall is turned off.

• It is important to note that while Facebook gives negative connotations to the “paranoid” security setting, it is the most secure and will hide your information from anyone you do not know personally.

• Putting a Facebook link in your AIM profile, email signature, or blog will allow anyone who clicks the link to will be able to see your profile even if they don't have a Facebook account.

The Advanced Tab

• You can also customize your security settings via the advanced tab. This will allow you to share only the details you wish to only those you wish to see them.

Features

• People can divulge as little or as much information about themselves as they would like. Facebook provides any person with an .edu email address access to a network of people. People are able to create a profile, list friends, post pictures, events, messages, and the opportunity to search for others.

• Facebook provides the opportunity to reconnect with old friends and maintain relationships over long distances. However, Facebook and the information it provides can be abused if a user does not carefully maintain their privacy on their profile.

Facebook Profile:Possible information

• name• sex• high school • year• city you live in • state and zip code• cell phone number• looking for• loction on campus

• status (alumnus, faculty, staff, grad student)

• political affiliation• email address• academic

concentration• relationship status• instant message

name• interests

• Facebook allows you to customize your profile to include as much or as little as possible. You can search others by using and information you know of that person. Dependent on a person's privacy setting you will be able to view a good amount of their information.

Pictures

• The space given to each person to put photos up is unlimited.

• Pictures are posted by anyone that has a Facebook account. When posting pictures they have the option to “tag” names to faces. If a picture is tagged, then from a persons profile you can see that picture of them.

• When uploading pictures to your page, you have the option of who can see them, ranging from everyone to just your friends. Once someone has access to your profile, they can also see any pictures of you that have been tagged

Removing Pictures

• You can however remove the tag while viewing the picture. This will remove the photo link from your profile. Only people that are listed as friends can be tagged in ones photo album. If there is an embarrassing or humiliating picture that you do not wish to have up, you need to ask the person that has it posted to take it down.

Offensive Photos

• Facebook.com does not have the privilege to remove or make anybody remove pictures. However, there is a link for photos that are found to be offensive and facebook.com will then monitor it.

Groups

• Groups can be joined in three ways. The first is to simply click join group and you are in. The second requires an “administrators” approval before allowing you in. The final is by invitation only. Everyone is limited to 100 groups.

• Only people of each school account can be members of the same group. There are chapters of similar groups started at other schools however.

• Being a groupie means that you have “many” friends in one particular group. You have no control of this other than in the advanced settings tab in the My Privacy Page.

Offensive Groups

• If you find a group that appears to be offensive, there is a link to click on that ask for a brief description of why the group is offensive and facebook.com again will monitor the group.

Quiz

• The quiz consists of 16 questions. A passing grade of 80% or 13 out of 16 questions is required to pass.

• There is no time limit.• Please read the questions

thoroughly and take your time.

Questions

1. What is the safest Privacy Option?

• A. Normal• B. Paranoid• C. Reserved• D. None

• A. Normal• B. Paranoid• C. Reserved• D. None

• Though paranoid has a negative connotation, it provides users with the most security.

2. True/False: You can untag pictures.

• True• False

• You can untag pictures on your profile put there by other users.

3. True/False: You can remove pictures from Facebook.

• True• False

• however you can not have them removed without emailing the facebook.com administrators directly

4. Who can search for your profile?• A. Administrators• B. Students• C. Anyone with access to a .edu

email address• D. Everyone

• A. Administrators• B. Students• C. Anyone with access to a .edu email

address• D. Everyone

5. Which of the following affects how people see your profile?

• A. How many groups you are in• B. The number of friends you have• C. Your firewall settings• D. Your privacy options

• A. How many groups you are in• B. The number of friends you have• C. Your firewall settings• D. Your privacy options

6. What can people post on your wall?

• A. Pictures• B. Advertisements• C. Messages• D. Homework Assignments

• A. Pictures• B. Advertisements• C. Messages• D. Homework Assignments

7. Where is a safe place to keep your password?

• A. Lock box or safe• B. On your desk• C. Sticky note• D. As your screen saver

• A. Lock box or safe• B. On your desk• C. Sticky note• D. As your screen saver

8. What are possible consequences of joining a group?

• A. Become a “groupie”• B. Become associated with negative

groups• C. Linked to undesirable people• D. All of the above

• A. Become a “groupie”• B. Become associated with negative

groups• C. Linked to undesirable people• D. All of the above

9. What types of events can you be invited to?

• A. Programs• B. Campus Events• C. Parties• D. All of the above

• A. Programs• B. Campus Events• C. Parties• D. All of the above

Questions cont…

10. What is a pro to using facebook.com?

• A. To disclose your current computer location

• B. To expand your social network• C. To find classmates• D. Disclose personal information• E. Both B and C

• A. To disclose your current computer location

• B. To expand your social network• C. To find classmates• D. Disclose personal information• E. Both B and C

11. What is a con to replying to a party?

• A. It will disclose your location at the time of the party

• B. Convenience of establishing social gatherings

• C. A way to plan car-pooling

• A. It will disclose your location at the time of the party

• B. Convenience of establishing social gatherings

• C. A way to plan car-pooling

12. Your Facebook profile must display:

• A. Your cell phone number• B. State• C. High school• D. None of the above

• A. Your cell phone number• B. State• C. High school• D. None of the above

• -you only include the information of your choice and only allow others to see it via privacy settings

13. True/False: Facebook.com can remove any picture from someone’s profile?

• True• False

• Facebook cannot remove information posted by someone, however you can report offensive material to them and they will monitor the situation

14. How many groups can you be a part of?

• A. 50 • B. 75• C. 100• D. Unlimited

• A. 50 • B. 75• C. 100• D. Unlimited

15. Why is having a picture of you tagged a good thing? • A. Because anyone can put your picture

online• B. Because only you can see tagged photos• C. Because you will know about that

picture of you being in someone’s photo album

• D. None of the above

• A. Because anyone can put your picture online

• B. Because only you can see tagged photos

• C. Because you will know about that picture of you being in someone’s photo album

• D. None of the above

16. True/False: If you post your Facebook profile link in your AIM profile people who click on it can see all of the information on your page.

• True• False

Thank You

• Thank you for your participation in the online security tutorial.

• Your Score is: __/16

Measuring success

• Random sample from population before presentation and tutorial

• Intervention (Presentation/Tutorial)• Post-test

• Has there been a change in:• Access location posted?• Phone # posted?• Pictures posted and linked?• Groups joined?• Address listed?

Evaluation

• Will this change how you use Facebook?• How?

• What did you find to be the most important aspect covered?

• What do you feel needs to be covered that was not part of the tutorial?

• List three key points you learned from the tutorial

• Do you have a facebook.com profile?• If not, do you plan to create one?

• Were you able to easily understand the material?

• Why do you think this topic is important?

Feasibility

• Low Cost• Presentation can be done each

semester• One time Setup

• Tutorial is web based and self administered.

• Once set up, little maintenance is required

Revisiting Tutorial

• The tutorial will be revisited each semester for evaluation and revisions.

Other issues to consider

• Review of Judicial process and sanctions• Student who is suspended may be

unlikely to do educational sanctions

What have we learned?

• We learned all of the options there are with regard to safety and security online

• We learned how to fully use Facebook.com (all of the features)

References

• http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1052440764269 (retrieved Feb. 18th, 2004)

• www.facebook.com (retrieved Feb 15th, 2004)

• All pictures pulled from www.google.com image search (retrieved Feb 15th, 2004)