Tracy Mitrano Closing Keynote

Who said:

- "email is for old people" - chronicle of higher ed about 3 months ago
- "for formal communication" - 22 year old undergrad
- "is lame" - 14 year old

Who among us...
- Has a page on facebook?
- uses some form of social networking technology for their work
- has forbidden their son or daughter to use one?

Web2.0

she explains what it is.... A great video of what it is can be found from Will Richardson's website - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i20HUE6n_nA

she recc's Yochai Benkler's book the "wealth of networks" -
http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Main_Page
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=0300110561
(too bad I missed his visit to MSU recently...)

Pew internet and american life project
- 55% of online teens have created a personal profile and 55% have used myspace, facebook, etc.
- 66% of teens who have created a profile say their profile is not visible to all internet users
- 48% of teens visit social networking websites daily or more, 26% once a day, 22% several times a day
- 17% report using social networking sites to flirt

What's all the fuss about?
It does happen... we need to communicate and we need to apply our physical habits/laws ___as applicable___

- criminals push the tech envelope
- pedophiles and myspace
- both private and government efforts to curb
- private - "security officers"
- govt. - legislation

tough thing is nobody wants to be known as the "guy who voted against stopping pedophilia! So when misinformed legislation is introduced, it's hard to stop it.

What is it about computers that lowers inhibitions?
- absence of physical and social cues that consciously or unconsciously keep behavior in check
- deeply personal relationship with computers, not unlike an analyst-analyuzand relationship allow for unimpeded expressions

We, as higher ed, need to be open about how these technologies are being used. We need to remember how we were at that age... but we need to make sure that people understand what's happening and what could happen.

Read "Thoughts on Facebook" - http://cit.cornell.edu/oit/policy/memos/facebook.html

With sites like facebook and myspace the companies will likely never promise that they can purge all of your information from their records, even if you don't want it there and discontinue the service, because the technology is so complex and complicated that there is no way to guarantee that all of your information will be eliminated.

As is always said, Education is the key... it's okay to prevent use in some situations, but perhaps the more important way of work