Internet & Social Media Safety

Where Do We Communicate?

• Facebook• Twitter

• TEXT• IM

• Craigslist• Chat rooms

• Yik Yak

Goals

• Physical Safety• Psychological Safety – freedom from cruelty,

harassment, and exposure to potentially disturbing material

• Reputational and Legal Safety – freedom from unwanted social, academic, professional, and legal consequences that could affect users for a lifetime

• Identity, Property, and Community Safety –freedom from theft of identity & property

Protection

• Education = Intelligence = PROTECT YOURSELF• Strong passwords• Communicate with only people you know• Increase privacy levels• Don’t share personal information• Use an alias• Software can help

Penalties

• Privacy In Communications• Disorderly Conduct• Under federal law, persons convicted of child

porn or exploitation may face: Minimum 5 years in prison up to maximum 20

years Lifetime registering as a SEX OFFENDER!

Montana State Law

45-8-213. Privacy in communications. (1) Except as provided in 69-6-104, a person commits the offense of violating privacy in communications if the person knowingly or purposely:

(a) with the purpose to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy, or offend, communicates with a person by electronic communication and uses obscene, lewd, or profane language, suggests a lewd or lascivious act, or threatens to inflict injury or physical harm to the person or property of the person. The use of obscene, lewd, or profane language or the making of a threat or lewd or lascivious suggestions is prima facie evidence of an intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy, or offend.

Montana state Law

45-8-101. Disorderly conduct. (1) A person commits the offense of disorderly conduct if he knowingly disturbs the peace by:

(a) quarreling, challenging to fight, or fighting; (b) making loud or unusual noises; (c) using threatening, profane, or abusive language; (d) discharging firearms, except at a shooting range during established hours of

operation; (e) rendering vehicular or pedestrian traffic impassable; (f) rendering the free ingress or egress to public or private places impassable; (g) disturbing or disrupting any lawful assembly or public meeting; (h) transmitting a false report or warning of a fire or other catastrophe in such a

place that its occurrence would endanger human life; (i) creating a hazardous or physically offensive condition by any act that serves

no legitimate purpose; or (j) transmitting a false report or warning of an impending explosion in such a

place that its occurrence would endanger human life.

What A Cyberbullying Victim Should NOT Do ?

Do not reply to messages from cyberbullies.

Do not delete messages from cyberbullies UNLESS possession is an issue.

Do not agree to meet with…ANYONE met through online media.

BOTTOME LINE IS THIS…

BE PART OF THE

SOLUTIONNOT THE PROBLEM.