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There are a wide range of sites which people can use to create social networks, gather followers, or make "friends". All of them require caution, especially for teachers. Be wary of all of them but don't ignore their power. =CAUTION: once you upload images etc to many of these sites, they become the property of the site! =

Statistical evidence would indicate that most young people are not making random friends through these applications, and you don't really get approaches from people you don't know. Twitter approaches can be random but Twitter is monitoring these and removing the obvious ones. We need to teach young people that it's alright to say NO!

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21 rules for social networking []

Changes to privacy in Facebook over time: []

An interesting take on twitteritis []

[] these people are not only collecting information on you, but happily disseminating it without your permission. If you want to make them stop, they will do it one of two ways, through reputation defender which will cost you money, or they will remove it from only their site for free. If you want to make them stop their site from giving out your info, these are the steps to take, look yourself up, copy the URL, then go to the privacy section (real tiny at the bottom) on the main page and open it, paste in your URL and do the data entry. Supposedly this will make it stop on their site.

Reputation management online: []

Sites relating to digital footprints: []

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Other sites on Digital footprints @ [] - if you're looking for a time filler go to Gary's Social Media Counter

Social Media in your classroom to see how and why you might use Social Media to improve learning outcomes for your students.