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Brown Bag 3.0 Summary
Internet Safety |  |
| Parents and Professionals learned tips for helping
youth stay safe in cyberspace
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Thank you Karina Berzins from
the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), Internet Crimes Against Children
(ICAC) for the information you shared with us at our Brown Bag 3.0 on Tuesday
February 2.
Here are some the highlights
from the presentation as well as some of the links Karina provided.
The top two Internet Safety
issues facing youth today are:
Cyberbullying
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42% of youth have been
bullied online.
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21% have received mean or
threatening messages by email or other messaging options, such as online chat
and text.
- 58% have not told their
parents or another trusted adult.
Top technologies used by
youth in Cyberbullying:
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Cell phones
- Social networking sites like
Facebook and MySpace
- Instant messaging
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Email
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Photoshop (yes the photo
editing program)
- Blogs
Sexting is the act of
sending sexually explicit messages or photos electronically, primarily between
mobile phones.
- 29% of Sexting messages are
sent to people youth have never met.
- 90% of the pictures youth
thought were only seen by the eyes of the person it was sent to were seen by at
least one other person.
- Only 25% considered they
could get in legal trouble
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