Famous Online: You & Social Media

Dan BulatekBethany V. Smith

Your Digital Footprint

Making Tracks: Your Footprint

• Social Media• Blogging• Texting• Web authoring

What does Google say about you?

How do you control this?

Think before you post PSA?

Do you know what companies are doing with your info?

Terms of Service• http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared

through your privacy and application settings. In addition: For content that is covered by intellectual

property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following

permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive,

transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free,

worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in

connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or

your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.

When you publish content or information using the "everyone"

setting, it means that you are allowing everyone, including people off of Facebook, to

access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).

Tagging and Untagging

Cyber Bullying 

Ricardo's Story

Do you think Ricardo is a cyberbully?

What does Ricardo mean when he says that information “gets

around really quick”?

Ricardo thinks that harassing others on the Internet, rather than

in person, appeals to some teenagers because they can’t be attacked physically. What do you

think?

Have you ever encountered online cruelty? 

How do you think someone might feel after being the target of it?

Key Vocabulary

• Target: A person who is the object of an intentional action• Offender: A person who has malicious intent to hurt or

damage someone• Bystander: A person who does nothing when they witness

something happening• Upstander: A person who supports and stands up for

someone else• Escalate: To increase or make more intense• De-escalate: To decrease or make less intense

Stacey's Story

How Targets and Upstanders Can De-escalate Online Cruelty

Ignore and block the bully. Offenders often want attention. Take it away and they may give

up.

Save the evidence. You may need it later for documentation.

Change your privacy settings. Allow only people you trust to

see or comment on your pages.

Tell trusted friends and adults. Create a support network.

Upstanders:

• Stand up to the offender when appropriate. If you see something negative, say something. Make it clear that you think online cruelty is wrong, and tell the offender to back off. (It may be easier to do this if you have good standing with the offender.)

• Point out the bully’s motivation to the target. Comfort the target by explaining that many offenders act cruelly just to gain control, power, or status.

• Help the target advocate. Help the target find friends and school leaders who can help de-escalate the situation. It’s easier to stand up to cruelty when you are not alone.

Have you or a friend ever experienced a situation similar to Stacey’s ? How might the strategies in the chart have helped you in that situation?

Dial It Down Maps

• Pair Upo One Student Left-Columno One Student Right-Column

• Use elements such as size and color to indicate escalation and de-escalation, and arrows to show the flow of events

Wrap Up

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