Interesting Facts

 

1) Keeping in touch with friends and loved ones
2) Meeting new friends
3)Multi-Media:
4) Online Gaming (but not excessively) 

Case study

 case study (local/overseas)

1 Suicide of Megan Meier

Megan Taylor Meier (November 6, 1992 – October 17, 2006) was an American teenager from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, who committed suicide by hanging three weeks before her 14th birthday. A year later, Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her suicide was attributed to cyber-bullying through the social networking website MySpace.2Elite school's horrific cyber-bullying case

Two adolescent girls have been forced to leave one of Sydney's elite private schools because of cyber-bullying.

The girls were taken out of Ascham School after they published material on the social networking website, My Space, containing personal and possibly defamatory information about their classmates.

3 A plea from a sick girl
  
  Little Kimberly Anne is dying of a horrible tropical disease.  Her goal,
  before she passes into the Great Beyond, is to collect as many free America
  Online disks as she can, to make the Guiness Book of Records.  Her project
  is being sponsored by the Wish-Upon-a-Star Foundation, which specializes in
  fulfilling the final wishes of such sick little girls.
   
  So, next time you get an unwanted AOL disk in the mail, don't throw it away!
  Think of the sparkle it will bring to the eye of a dying child.  Write on
  the package:
Please copy this message and circulate it to your friends, neighbors, and
   co-workers.    Only you can child's wish reality!    God bless you from the
  Wish-Upon-a-Star Foundation!</h3>
 4 ) 9 teens arrested in Phoebe Prince cyberbullying case
    It appears many of the egregious acts of those bullying Phoebe Prince were done at school.  While it is not yet clear to what degree these students harassed Phoebe through text messaging or on social networking sites, it seems they were not humbled by their potential role in what ultimately happened to her.  According to the Boston Globe, they “went on Facebook and mocked her in death.”
 

Inspirational use of MSN/Blogger/Facebook

 

1) Facebook, enables its users to present themselves in an online profile, accumulate "friends" who can post comments on each other's pages, and view each other's profiles. Facebook members can also join virtual groups based on common interests, see what classes they have in common, and learn each others' hobbies, interests, musical tastes, and romantic relationship status through the profiles.
  2) Facebook constitutes a rich site for researchers interested in the affordances of social networks due to its heavy usage patterns and technological capacities that bridge online and offline connections.
3)facebook support both the maintenance of existing social ties and the formation of new connections
4)Facebook allows users to connect with people they know and meet new friends

Cyber Wellness Tips

 

1)Do not believe everything that is found on the internet.
2) Check if resources used are regulated
3)Delete all junk mails received
4) Do not follow instructions found in chain mails
E.g

LITTLE JESSICA STROM IS SEVEN YEARS OLD AND IS SUFFERING FROM AN ACUTE AND VERY RARE CASE OF CEREBRAL CARCINOMA. THIS CONDITION CAUSES SEVERE MALIGNANT BRAIN TUMORS AND IS A TERMINAL ILLNESS. THE DOCTORS HAVE GIVEN HER SIX MONTHS TO LIVE.AS PART OF HER DYING WISH, SHE WANTED TO START A CHAIN LETTER TO INFORM PEOPLE OF THIS CONDITION AND TO SEND PEOPLE THE MESSAGE TO LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST AND ENJOY EVERY MOMENT, A CHANCE THAT SHE WILL NEVER HAVE. FURTHERMORE, THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY AND SEVERAL CORPORATE SPONSORS HAVE AGREED TO DONATE THREE CENTS TOWARD CONTINUING CANCER RESEARCH FOR EVERY NEW PERSON THAT GETS FORWARDED THIS MESSAGE. PLEASE GIVE JESSICA AND ALL CANCER VICTIMS A CHANCE.

Danger of net application..

- Child Exploitation
e.g ; Children Vulnerable to Victimization Signs of Child Sexual Exploitation Sex Offender Profiles Strategies of Sex
- Phishing -e-mails, text messages  websites fabricated in an attempt to collect personal, financial and sensitive information.  It’s also known as brand spoofing.

-Cyberbullying
defination; involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others

-Identity theft
e.g Identity theft refers to the preparatory stage of acquiring and collecting someone else's personal information for criminal purposes.

-Online shopping fraud
e.gscammers may sell a product – often at a very cheap price – just so they can steal your payment card or personal information. They may also take your money and send you a worthless item, or sometimes, nothing at all.
info from
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/is-si/index-eng.htm