student leaders elected by our peers and we're here today to talk to you a little bit about something we find obviously important enough to leave school a little bit early and to create a presentation to talk to you about and that is the issue of cyber safety in making responsible choices on the web you guys are at that age seventy eighth grade when the mediums of communication that you guys are using are changing you guys tweet you guys snap chat you guys go on instagram and talk to each other via d m z or in the comments we don't talk to each other like we used to in six fifth fourth grade we are now using our phones more so now than ever for pretty much everything it's how relate to each other it's how we communicate with each other and that is why it is more important now than ever that we are you know being as well equipped as we can to sort of face these issues that could potentially come up as we grow as you guys grow into high schoolers as you grow into college students and even into a being an adult being social socially responsible on social media is something is definitely something you can take with you forever and we hope to relate to you guys on a level that you understand we were there wants to it wasn't that long ago actually that we were eighth graders as we we might seem a lot older than you now but trust me we're not it goes the time goes by way faster than you would realize so beyond that i just want to introduce ok so first going to be talking about say i take a picture right now i post on snapchat twitter instagram how is this going to affect me in ten minutes how's it going to affect me tomorrow next week what's going to happen ok and then later we're going to be talking about how what i posted right now how that affects me with my job in the future how the fix me with college isn't stuff like that ok so reading this memory here how many of you have ever posted something on your snapchat or your instagram basically just bragging about i'm on vacation we all raise your hands we've all done it i know it it's ok so the big thing with this is please wait until you are at home until you post any thing on any social media posting about where you are ok this becomes an issue because every single person that's on your instagram can see this if your friends screenshot that instead not to their friends all of that all of them can see that as well you don't know those people i'm i honestly doubt that most of you have every single person on your instagram that you are best friends with right like i might i know that's the same with me too  we need to be very very very careful about this there are people that could be going to your house i know there we all don't have the smartest friends i know so i know that if you're if you're at home or you're on vacation and you would say you have a picture on instagram saying i'm on vacation your friends would honestly go to your house your house could get robbed there could be parties at your house and you don't know anything about it because you're not home right so please wait until you're at home ok and then also this becomes an issue with pedophiles too ok and i know you all have heard the pedophiles speech before ok goes right over your heads but it's true ok say you're at a high school football game and walking to your car and that person could intercept you before you get to your parents like you please just wait until you are at home ok ok and then also just have extra caution about what you're posting to i know again with the football example that you're taking a picture and you have like the back fence in the background people know where that is there's a significant landmark in the background people are going to know oh look they're not home and people are especially with a pedophile in that situation they're looking for you to mess up with so for those of you who don't know it's whenever you open your snapshot and then you are able to see where every single person that is on your snapshot is real life so everything single time that i open my snapshot all of my friends are able to know where i am ok so me show you guys how to do it but you want all of your friends you know where you are at all times that's just not safe i mean again you don't know exactly who's following every single one of your snapshots you don't know every single person that they could be sending these to just please and if you want to have to show your friends where you are text them individually or say hey like i'm here or snapchat them individually to it just don't let them know exactly where you are at all times so to unable to go this ghosting feature you're going to be opening your snapshot and then you're going to put your fingers on the sides and swipe and then that opens the g m apps and then to the right there's the wheel up they're going to press that and then there's the ghosting feature right there ok it's going to be enabling the ghosting feature by clicking the button and slaves who are sliding it to the right ok so please please please please just have this off it's not safe be careful where you're posting and just think about what you're posting before you do it you now how many of you guys would like to meet a four year old person pretending to be your age ok so for those of you who are kind of interesting that don't be but anyway so that's sort of the stuff i want to talk about is talking to people you don't know and so the main issue with talking to people you don't know is that you don't know them you don't know who they are you don't know if they are who they say they are which is another issue and so i want to tell you guys about a few ways on where you can try and find out who that person is and so a good way to do this is asking your friends so or checking their followers and who they're following and they're doing that you can find out that maybe it's just a person who you just like goes through your school but you don't know because you never talk to them and you don't really care to or if it's just or if it's someone from like another district who's also in the same age read or if it's a person who might be a lot older than you you know you don't really want to be talking to and so once you find out that you know you might talk to a friend or something or you don't know and this person sends you a message well what do you do then and so you guys the one thing i want stress is that if at any time you feel that the messages are making you uncomfortable or that the person you're talking to  suspicious just don't talk to them it's really simple you just block them or you don't even have to blossom you don't respond to anything they say and do that you know you can pray and communication with that person if it goes a little farther and these people still try and find multiple ways to reach you and they still do their messages in your comfortable tell your parents like i know it's weird and you guys might not want to do it because it'll make you uncomfortable and it's a weird conversation to have but at the end of the day your safety matters more than you being uncomfortable a little bit so it's worth it to just go and tell your parents and so now i want to talk about what comes next so what happens if you keep on talking to this person they seem pretty cool you don't have any reason to believe that they're like a pedophile or something and they say hey you want to meet up well so meeting up was a person you meet on the internet is pretty dangerous for all of us reasons and so the one thing that you guys want to remember is that maybe you decide hey this seems like a pretty good opportunity he's into one direction i'm into one direction it could be a cool meeting place so you go and decide yeah let's go and meet up the one of the few things that you should always remember or a tell your parents or meeting someone new and always tell them where you're going in and like just all the specifics as much as you can and then to bring them along if you can that's just going to help keep you safe but maybe your parents aren't available and they can come with you well then the next thing to do would be to take a group of as many people as possible i'm not talking about bringing one or two friends with you i'm talking about like six seven eight twenty twenty people can find the time to go and talk with you and just take as many people as you can and always meet them in a public place that way it'll make their job if they're trying to like kidnap you or maybe like a soldier or something it's going to make their job a lot harder and it's going to do the best to keeping you safe and so that's like the one thing you should always keep in mind oh also don't send any personal information to someone who you don't know it's just the smart thing to do you don't want somebody showing up at your house at like three am or something so i better just than nothing also be smart like that's just the main thing that i want to circle back around to is be smart guys i mean that's how you're going to be safe just be smart if you realize like you guys are probably old enough to know if they're warning signals and if it's someone who you should or should be talking to you they just use that knowledge and make sure you stay safe and because i don't have a great transition i'm going to say candice off to anthony you talk about sending pictures  i guess so i'm here to talk of course same pictures and when i say saying pictures i'm more kind of talking on live like explicit pictures will for vocative pictures inappropriate pictures like the nudes maybe  but i'm not here to critique you on like making like the perfect selfie anything or like giving you a shirt policy the follow orders we're here to make sure that you guys are making the right choices and just keep yourself safe online so let's all your first little ball point here little  that's a big ball point that's a think before you said so was i mean it means exactly what it says and this is just something at the be aware of for and this can be over a thing if you're about to send a picture of a snap chat about the post something on  maybe a little pushing it don't post it it's not worth it because in the end the only person her can hurt is you and you could possibly even hurt some of your friends too so let's talk about some screen shots because they were going to be honing in more like snap chat screenshot of it so this is a good thing is tasha does this it's just a mental check that if someone takes a screenshot of you on snapchat if you saw your don't think before you send your ok because you know in your mind that it usually will just be your friends but if you send a funny picture and they take a screenshot it's like ok sure but if you're saying someone like random or something it's screenshot that's where it gets a little while she and you want to kind of probably and ties them and not talk to them anymore but we're going to move into the scarier part which is screen recorders so screw quarters are apps that there are apps out there that lets you record either stories pictures on snapchat ins pictures or instagram stories people can record these without your well being and knowledge and that's where you want to just feel like you want to be extra careful if you're posting a story on your instagram let's say for say and you do in la it's a live feed your friends or over a friday night having a blast you guys are maybe doing some shady stuff this is where you don't it tells you luckily an instagram who's watching you don't know who's recording you don't know who's taking screenshots of it it doesn't tell you so you just have to be  careful extra cautious don't make any mistakes when you're doing these just be aware of what you're doing and just don't know making stews six think before you said so with that one of the moving heading up the mattie who's going to talking about some long term so what better way to start off the long term with the most long term of all for ever so i'm going to start off with talking about something we probably all should know as people who have smartphones the power of screen shotting it's something we all have the power to screenshot we can all do it and it's something that memorializes whatever we're screen shotting inside our own phones forever every every tweet we post on twitter every snapchat story we have in our stories those things are able to be screenshot it those things are able to last forever i think and i'm sure many would agree with me especially the adults in the room that we are at a bit of a disadvantage as a generation the things we say the emotional responses we make because of things that have happened to us or something is going on at school and we decide you know i'm going to sub twitter and you go on twitter you some tweet whoever you're subsuming about and next thing you know there's a fight on twitter and things like that ruin relationships things like that stay in they change people's perception of you these are something some these are things that do not change no matter how hard you try because other people can screenshot them they last forever whenever you put something out on the internet it doesn't just go away it's there forever and that's what i'm talking about today mostly and that's something we should know you guys as people who have we assume because that's what it that's what their claim to fame is is the fact that snapshots are self destructing messages or let me be the top of one to tell you that that isn't completely true so every time you send a snap chat it's received so let's say i'm sending a snap chat to ryan he is the receiver of that snap chat within his phone there's a folder called receive image sn and within that folder is every snap chat that he's ever received from every user so every snapchat i'm sending him is in that folder but with a different extension and that extension is point no media so an extension basically if you don't already know is something like a j peg something like a p d f it's not readable to us but if we were to change it into a j peg into a p d f then it would be so what i'm saying here received photos again in change them into extensions that are readable but it's possible and it's something we have to understand because those things just don't go away it isn't deleted forever it's on the phone it's on every single each of you guys have ever received is on your phone right now encrypted so we want to make sure that we're aware that things like this are possible you could be hacked you know people if you are like i said earlier if if you're snapshotting somebody that you don't know wit maybe the time maybe with expertise that could happen to you and i'm going to read you guys a little bit about a little bit of the terms of service is on sound you know everybody clicks that box and they've read or agreed to terms of service so i actually went and i looked at what their terms of service in plain view and pretty under most understandable writing they say for all content you submit to the services other than public content you grant snapp incorporated in you also grant us a perpetual license to create derivative works from promote exhibit broadcast syndicate sublicense publicly perform and publicly display public content in any form in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later known so basically what that means is every snapshot you've ever sent every story of ever created they own those images they aren't yours the second you save them the second you send them they do not belong to you and therefore in the year two thousand and seventy let's say and will say or later developed media forms and there's some sort of cyber borg doll downloading your nude images from snap incorporated i dou whatever happened but still this is something we have to think about you know and it's something we should be aware of especially with and especially because it's such a prevalent the next thing i want to talk about is privatization so when i looked up my name on google images i'm on the left hand side of or there i'm not privatized on my twitter so all of those pictures you see right or for there those are pictures from my  simply on google images everything i had posted is available to anyone so anyone can see it everyone anyone here could just search at my name addy belts and they would see those images but on the right hand side is mara in the thing with mara is all  social media as are privatized so why are photos of her up there and that's because people have posted photos of her tag turn photos and those people are privatized so it doesn't even matter if you are privatized but your friends aren't and they're posting photos of you they are still as they're still as able to be posted on google images and every social media if you're not privatized i guarantee it's up there and these are things like for example you look at mars picture over there she's a bit shorter than she is now i think she was in seventh grade in that photo but these are things that have been on there for years and these are things that people have posted of her so this is something you want to be one hundred percent cognizant of not only the things that you're posting that are lasting on google images forever things that your friends are posting of you you want to be able to promote the best the best view of yourself to anyone who's able to search you in it you need to make sure the things you're posting and i encourage you guys google yourself for once just to see like what's on there because those are the things when an employer is googling your name when a college is googling your name this is what they're seeing if you want to make sure you're one hundred percent aware of what exactly is on there at all times so moving on we're going to talk to morrow a little bit about the legal implications social media are it sort of switch all right so to switch things up a little bit i made a video interviewing our vice principal mr last night about how your interactions on social media can land you a seat in the principal's office great question and it is a legal question because we are not the life police the police are the life police so social media is typically happens outside of school it can have a that's the legal term a nexus a connection to the school environment and then it becomes my business or the school's business if there is harassment or bullying going on that affects a student during their school day or from  experiencing their their school day to the best of their ability so if there was harassment last night but it's keeping them from performing in school the next day and it can be something that has a nexus to the school environment in addition  social media posts happen during school or portray something from the school pictures of the school pictures of kids within school sent during school then those are things that can have a nexus with the school and therefore be disciplined by the school if they are a  policy i would say the most common thing that causes kids to be in the office regarding social media is when they are taking pictures or videos of someone in the school environment with or without their permission without their permission it's an automatic violation with their permission if what is being portrayed is a violation of school policy for example if someone were to take a picture of someone with a prohibited substance or oper item that is not permitted in the school environment that will get them in trouble and secondarily to that beyond the pictures in the videos i would say that kids posting denigrating comments about another student is probably the second most problematic thing that would cause someone to be in my  office to me social media can become very addictive and can become an addictive behavior to the point where you have obsessive compulsive tendencies on not being able to control whether or not you look at your phone so i know we've been talking a lot about how you get in trouble but i think it also this constant inundation with communication is something that this generation of students is facing that no generation has ever faced before in that back back when i was in school when i hung up the phone yes phones had wires when i hung up the phone the conversation was over and i did not have to think about whether or not the person would say something as a follow up or  would come back at me with a with a quip or a criticism i didn't have to worry about what kids were saying about me at that moment because there was no ability for them to post that anywhere they may have a negative thought in their head but that's where it stopped so now in today's society we are constantly inundated with communication it is difficult to shut it off and be able to focus on friends family homework and other things it's you can't turn it off that's to me my biggest fear is the impact that it's having on a psychologically in that we are we are twenty four seven constant  communicators like all things it should be used in moderation we structure our school day in that you may have your phone between classes during study halls and at lunch your teachers will typically tell you that you cannot have it during class time they may use it for academic purposes but my recommendation is give your brain a break from it and and be present in the moment so my advice would be  use it in moderation and be responsible with it and then my other piece of advice i know you asked me for one but my second piece of advice with it would be really think before you post because even though you're posting it for maybe one or two people to share  it can be screenshot it and it can be forwarded to the world and it should be something a good rule of thumb would be if it's not something that you would say in front of your grandma and your principle that it probably shouldn't be said by don't put that out there all right so next for the legal aspects so obviously i'm no legal expert so i resorted to officer steve which is the officer that is stationed in the high school and he said the two most common reasons that he finds students in legal trouble with with regard to social media are harassment in the transmission of sexually explicit images by minors so harassment is basically cyber harassment is the legal translation of cyber bullying so it is the  seriously disparaging statement or opinion about the child's physical characteristics sexuality sexual activity or mental or physical health or condition or threat to inflict harm so basically to avoid getting in trouble with this legally you guys know what's ok and not ok to post you all have brains so just honestly really think before you post secondly the transmission of sexually explicit images by minors obviously that would be nudes so as soon as you send or are aware and knowingly receive these images you can find yourself in legal trouble further from there if you further distribute the images once receiving them or use them as some sort of blackmail you can also get in more legal trouble so both of these instances result in a forfeiture of your phone so when you come home without your new i phone eight and your parents ask you where it is you're going to explain to them that you are sending nudes and officer steve is now looking through your phone and it's now his so to put things into more of a perspective for you guys to give you an example so here's scenario one nude sent to an aware receiver so if i want to send a naked picture to ryan and he knows it's coming he knows beforehand i told him beforehand and as soon as he opens it he can find himself in legal trouble so then that's that scenario we are both at fault the next scenario would be me sending a nude to an unsuspecting victim so i randomly decide to send ryan a nude one day and he opens it  no idea it's coming in that case i can only find myself in trouble for that so what to do if you receive a nude first off don't distribute it that is what will get you in trouble secondly delete it and cut off contact with the sender and if it continually occurs it becomes an issue more of an issue than already is to talk to an adult and hopefully they will fix things for you so next i'm going to have to talk about middle school and high school ok so first raise your hand if you've ever seen a fight over social media ok it's not pretty also raise your hand if you have a twitter anyone ok now there are some people so i'm going to talk about twitter fights and just in generally like in general social media fights first things first there are a terrible idea really i've been in one before it's awful so twitter fights especially they're not good at all because they take a very private thing and make them public they make them open to interpretation for everybody on the internet so say you have a friend who you're really really upset with and you're going in you're just tweeting with your emotions and you're not really thinking that makes everybody else on the internet able to form their own opinions about you and about your friend when maybe in reality it wasn't i think of a deal and there wasn't a reason to tweet about it so it's just better to keep these going to say something bad about them and you don't want to tag them specifically but you want them to know it's about them so say this girl says something mean about me but she doesn't tag me at is you nicole i am she just says like you know who you are so the reason that's a terrible idea again is because it can cause a lot of harm to both the receiver who it was intended for and to other people so say i'm like hey that was me and that was about me or how rude but then somebody say was that about me like that's so mean but so that causes like a lot of just tension between the person you sub tweeted and pretty much everybody else so if you have an issue with someone just act like an adult and deal with it because talk to them face to face call them just make sure that you're handling it responsibly because you guys are all going to be in high school next year so next who has seen the m t v show catfish all right so a lot of you so cat phishing is the way you try to convince somebody over the internet that you are not who you really are you not who you say you are so if you think you're being catfish by somebody here are a few things to do one like each on said if you don't know who they are in person don't give out any public information any private information don't give out where you live don't give them your phone number don't give them any type of personal information that could harm you that could come back to bite you also if they're sending you messages that don't seem to be adding up they're asking for weird things there just things aren't clicking exactly please block them block them and just delete the messages do not get in contact with them again but if this they still continue to just persist and you don't think they're real obviously tell the da i know it's weird to tell your parents but do it because it's they can really hurt you  if you were the catfish sure which i hope none of you are the there are a lot of reasons why you shouldn't do this number one it's just really manipulative and number two is it just causes direct harm to the person that you use against them so that is just wrong on so many levels and very manipulative and it's never the right way to get back at someone's ever the right way to teach somebody a lesson it's it's not just a more it's not like a good moral thing to do so because that hi guys so i'm going to talk to you about reporting and this goes back to is he talking cat fishing you seans chatting with people you don't know and anthony's nudes so this is reporting is for more serious things if you feel uncomfortable about something that someone sent you whether it's a message or a picture or if you feel threatened then and if you either can't tell an adult that's always the first option to tell a parent or a trusted adult because they always know what's best but another option is always to report them to whatever social media using so first snap chat they have a support site where you can go to their safety instagram for instagram you just hit the little dot dot above the post or the user and you block them or the post and it's the same thing with twitter the only thing i have to say about reporting is you should take it very seriously because if you report someone is a joke just to play around with someone if one see investing investigation occurs and it leads back to you and they find out that you weren't telling the truth it could have legal consequences for both you and the person you were reporting so take reporting very seriously and don't take it lightly the next thing i want to talk about was jobs and college applications so how posting can affect you in the future so college is going to be covered by paul but i want to talk about jobs so how many of you know someone or have a sibling or something that has a job right now yeah so almost all of us know someone who has a job most juniors and seniors get part time jobs so that they can make a little pocket money so nowadays a lot of employers are searching their possible candidates on social media because they feel that social media shows what those people are really like because on applications everyone can always lie and say i am such an amazing person you should definitely hire me but social media they feel like they can get a true picture in so what that person is really like i like anthony said you should always think before you post and just imagine a future employers colleges looking into these posts so i have a friend who is way after college she had already graduated and she was applying to be a guidance counselor in a middle school actually and so whenever her possible employers search her up on social media they found a picture of her from her freshman year of college so like eight nine years ago of her partying with her friends and she was denied that job because the the school said that she didn't uphold their values so that's an instance where something she posted like almost a decade before like she barely even remembered posting it affected her way later in the future and didn't let her get a perfectly good job so i just think before you post it can really impact you in the future and i wouldn't take posting lightly and i'm going to pass it off to paul for college application all right so i know that college applications may seem really far off from you guys i know they did to me in eighth grade but the reason we're talking to you about them now is because things that you post now can affect your college or your chances of getting accepted into a college so first and foremost i want to talk about how often colleges really look at you so in two thousand and sixteen last year forty percent of colleges looked up their applicants to see what they were doing on social media and this is up from thirty percent  the year before so basically that means that this number is going up and by the time that you guys start applying for colleges pretty much every college is going to be looking at you yes so it's it's going to happen and you guys need to be very careful about it and the reason they're doing this is they want to see who you really are as a person because that's the information they're not getting from your application so they're going to be looking at everything you post in trying to gauge who you are as a person and you want this to be positive obviously  so very quickly i'm just going to go over some ways that it can negatively affect you so thirty five percent of colleges said that their searches returned negative results and even more specifically twelve percent were flat denied soley based on what they posted on social media so this means that things that you post really really can affect you and just to go a little bit more specific because i find this interesting harvard last year rescinded ten acceptance is from students who had already been accepted so these are kids that are at the top of their class had perfect s a t s scores had done a ton of stuff they withdrew their acceptance is because of what they called offensive facebook posts and they even went more specifically to say that they knew that these things were jokes so these are things like jokes about the holocaust that oftentimes kids think are funny or can be a little bit edgy bacall just see as offensive and they had their acceptance is rescinded solely based on this so the main reasons that colleges look up at you on social media are up on the screen and i think it's interesting because of these basically span the entire spectrum so the first three and interesting town a prestigious award are special scholarship all kind of go for people at the top of their class people are applying to top schools and this also includes anyone who thinks about they may want to play a sport in college as well with the interesting talent they're going to be checking you out on social media and seeing who you are as a person and also kids towards the bottom of the class with referrals from teachers or peers or disciplinary records so i know what you may be thinking what teacher or student is going to take the time to report me to a college based on something i said on social media that's pretty ridiculous who would ever take the time to do that but obviously it happens more often than we think because it's the fourth most common reason that they ever look at you and also disciplinary records a lot of colleges require you to disclose any disciplinary infraction that you've had so you really need to be careful about want to be putting yourself out to be a socially well rounded student you want to be posting things about your passions about any sports you play about any clubs that you're in any extracurriculars and a volunteer work you do these are all things that colleges are going to want  see and now i know we've talked a little bit about this but i'm going to talk about something that happened very specifically to me in regards to someone something that someone posted that i didn't even know was posted about me so mara we're obviously pretty good friends we head up to penn state just a couple weeks ago to visit some of our friends and posted this picture on facebook and how many of you guys have of facebook i'm guessing not many of you i'm going to tell you that you're going to need to make one once you get into high school so this will affect you  but i have had a facebook since like sixth grade and i probably haven't checked it since about a month after i made it and so by i'm doing my homework downstairs my mom runs downstairs and starts screaming at me about how i could be so irresponsible to post a picture of me drinking on social media what was i thinking and i'm i was so confused because i haven't posted anything in forever and she tells me that's on facebook so i go on my facebook and check and see this picture on my feed that mara had posted of me and tag me in that i had no idea was online clearly this is a bottle not of your bottle i don't know what my aunt was thinking when she called my mom telling her that but basically the whole point of the story you just need to be careful and be vigilant about what other people are posting you as well not just what you are posting on social media because it can affect how colleges see you and how everyone else sees you so i'm going to very quickly headed off tomorrow to tell her personal story so my stories about raising hands how many people have offensive right so there's a good amount if you don't know if insta is the definitions behind me but last year which was my junior year of high school i played lacrosse so i was the night before the biggest game of the year which is against mount lebanon in one of my friends texted me and said you're going to want to watch your back tomorrow our your post got back to our message from your people aren't so happy about it and i was so confused i was like what are you talking about  i had post anything recently on my phone so i ended up scrolling back in my sophomore year which was the year prior i had posted something where i called a member of the my lebanon's team some rude and uncalled for things into put it lightly i called her man child so this post was screenshot it and sent back into their group message i was very embarrassed and i instantly deleted it but still the screenshots were out there and they had made it into the group message for the damage had already been done from the minute i stepped on the field the man child became  cry their coach was yelling it the whole team was yelling it almost united them that i called this girl a manchild the worst part of it was when the captains went up before the game to shake each other's hands the girl introduced herself to me as manchild so that instantly got me right in the face and it was one of the worst games i've ever played but that's beside the point so i was very confused and was trying to figure out how this got into their group message but there in lies the point it doesn't matter how it was screenshot or why it was screenshot it but the fact that i had posted it and said something rude if i hadn't have done that if i would have prevented that from happening then i would have got myself in hot water so things you post even for like a small audience like a can still get you in trouble even if it's not legally so again if you take one thing from this presentation it would be to think before you post a living breathing indorsement of this statement and i genuinely think it would keep you guys out of harm if you did so great sit still for one minute ok we are out of time so we do not have time for questions but i want everybody to give our high school students around t