Social Media Use Policy

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.

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

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.

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?

Protect Your Tweets

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.

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.

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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.