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CyberAwareness
done by: opusdeitoday.org[twitter.com/opusdeitoday]
PROGRAM:• Part 1: CyberCaveats• Part 2: PLUSes[aka “lay discipleship in cyberspace”]
Major references / links:• 10 Facebook tips:
http://opusdeitoday.org/2010/08/10-facebook-tips/ • Compilation of Internet tips:
http://opusdeitoday.org/2010/06/internet-tips/ • New Evangelization:
http://opusdeitoday.org/2010/10/new-evangelization/
Let’s start with some basic statistics…
Internet & social networking sites (SNS) challenges and potentials
Up to 37% (70 million webpages!) given to Pornography! Aren’t you gonna do anything about that?!?
Personally-owned electronic gadgets being used…
…by age group:11-16 y/o:1st: Mobile phone2nd: MP3 player3rd: TV4th: Handheld game console5th: PC19 y/o & above:1st: Mobile phone2nd: TV3rd: PC4th: MP3 player5th: Digital camera
Personally-owned electronic gadgets being used…This explains why internet content providers target & heavily market to YOU, young ones, with mobiles in your hands, eg, iPhone, BlackBerry:*They have Facebook & Twitter at their fingertips!
☺What is found on your FB wall is beginning to matter more!☺ e-newspapers typically receive more visits from Twitter ‘tweets’ than from Search engines!
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A. Social Networking Sites: challenges and potentials
Use of Social Networking Sites (global):
• 1995 –
• 2004 – •
launched – 1 million users• 2005 – 5.5 million users• 2006 – 12 million users• 2007 – 50 million users• 2008 – 100 million users• 2009 – 350 million users• 2010 – 500 million users!
Use of Social Networking Sites (global):
• Don’t just reveal personal info to just anybody! (the photos you share might give you away, e.g., school uniform, recognizable surroundings, etc.)
• Don’t just accept anybody as ‘friend’; NEVER just meet anybody you may have known on the Internet.
• Beware of PHISHING activities (on your email, on your Facebook wall…) Delete!
• Remember: Everything posted on the Net can be used by somebody else for the wrong motives (reasons different from those it was originally intended for).
Internet & social networking sites (SNS) some CAVEATS
Be quick with the DELETE/PURGE button!
Web presence……esp. presence in Social Networking Sites, whether you like it or not, has now become indispensable!
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• Next…
CyberAwareness Part 2: “New Evangelization”
Compilation of Internet tips:http://opusdeitoday.org/2010/06/internet-tips/
• Imagine your Mom/Dad or your prospective employer or future High School teacher … or the Pope… is constantly looking at & reading your Facebook status msg…– Msgs that would give a good image of you– Don’t curse, get angry, etc.– Msgs that would market what you want to market
1. Always positive [=creative, formative]
*Are you ashamed / afraid to ‘tweet’:• Scriptural passages?• Info/clarification about the Pope?• JMJ [WYD] 2011?• chastity.com [Jason Evert]?• Pro-life stuff?
2. Make a ‘dent’-Influence! Spread good ideas…
Your FB wall:Your friends’ feeds show up on the basis of 3 criteria:• The most recent,• The most commented,• Those “liked” by the most people.Friends’ feeds not meeting these criteria don’t show up,
whereas those with most points are shown at the top and stay there for longer. So, if you find one that’s interesting [aka, useful, helpful], you can do the following:
(1) “Like” it (2) “Share” / “re-post” it
2. (cont’d)
• (3) Leave a comment, even just a :-) or “Great news!” (Facebook does not distinguish between a one-word comment and an academic treatise.) Thus, when your friends log into Facebook, those would be the first news they’d see. Also, you make Google show these news higher up in searches, as Google treats each “like” or comment in Facebook more or less like a hit on a news item.
3. F A C E your book! :-) F A C E yourself…
Just some of the Evangelization-related presentations on slideshare.net
TIPS: For those trying to be ‘internet evangelists’
• For Catholics on the Internet:Link: Eric Sammons “Rules of Engagement for Catholics on the Internet”
1) Always remember the superiority of the real world over the virtual world.
2) Your salvation is more important than your involvement on the Internet.
3) Don’t ever say anything on the Internet that you wouldn’t say in person.
4) Don’t write anything in anger.
5) Don’t stereotype people.
6) Take at least one day off a week from the Internet.
7) Always assume the good intentions of others.
8.) Remember who the real Enemy is.
9) Remember that God resists the proud.
10) Don’t just go to Catholic sites.
At the moment of writing, consider the following:1. Make sure your piece is appealing. Add some visuals:
photos, VIDEOS!, short paragraphs.2. Try to numerate your ideas: that way, you could
organize them better.3. Give concrete examples, tell stories or anecdotes;
otherwise, you’d bore your audience to death 4. Ask your readers for feedback or comments: many
blogs nowadays allow free-flowing comments and discussions.
5. Acknowledge your sources/references.6. Solutions: Provide solutions and answers that people
ask from you. Don’t leave them in the dark… or at least tell them you don’t have the answer…
7. Write POSITIVE: content is King!
• The following is KEY: start a conversation, and make your friends speak up. The more people you get involved in the conversation, the greater your Christian influence in cyberspace! How could you start? Begin using your Facebook status msg more strategically !
Teach others! Learn the rules…
