{"id":799,"date":"2013-11-14T06:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetsafety.trendmicro.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2013-11-14T12:29:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T20:29:52","slug":"wwr_11nov13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/blog\/wwr_11nov13\/","title":{"rendered":"What We’re Reading This Week: Teens and ID Theft, Role of Social Media in College Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LynetteOwens_Trend_bw_edit\"<\/a>By Lynette Owens<\/p>\n

Week of November\u00a0 11, 2013<\/i><\/p>\n

To help you keep up with what\u2019s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we\u2019ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we\u2019ve found most useful over the past week.\u00a0 What have you been reading? Tell us below or Tweet\u00a0@TrendISKF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TEENS\u2019 SAFETY CONCERNS: <\/b>Last week, I attended the 2013 Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) conference in Washington D.C.\u00a0 <\/b>FOSI presented a new study on teens and identity theft and found that 51% of teens are very concerned about their identity being stolen<\/a>.\u00a0 However, only 29 percent of teens think they that they are personally vulnerable to having their identity stolen. \u00a0There were two other interesting data points that I gathered on the gap between attitudes and actions:<\/p>\n

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  1. 50% of teens have shared their usernames and passwords with someone, and of those, 16%\u00a0 were with parents and the remaining 34% with a friend or significant other.<\/li>\n
  2. Teens were very interested in learning how to protect their identity from an outside expert versus a parent, teacher, friend or online resource.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Conclusion:<\/i> we\u2019ve got a lot of work to do!<\/p>\n

    UNIVERSITIES TRACKING STUDENTS ON <\/b>SOCIAL<\/b>: According to a Kaplan questionnaire, 30 percent of college admissions officers said they had discovered information online that had negatively affected an applicant\u2019s chances of being accepted<\/a> to a school. \u00a0Universities like Colgate, Pomona and Southern Methodist University check on prospective students\u2019 social activities and some high schools are working to prepare students for this process.<\/p>\n

    Conclusion:<\/i> \u00a0The key for students?\u00a0 How to balance using the Internet to highlight your strengths and stay connected to others while maintaining some privacy.\u00a0 In my opinion, being invisible online is not an option.<\/p>\n

    FIREFOX BLOCKING COOKIES?<\/b>: Mozilla announced earlier this year that it plans to automatically block certain cookies<\/a> from the Firefox browser in an attempt to prevent tracking of users\u2019 information. However, this effort has been delayed with pressure from the ad industry and attempts to work with the Cookie Clearinghouse to reach a compromise.<\/p>\n

    YOUNG MOMS MORE SOCIAL<\/b>: A new study by Experian claims that mothers of children under five are twice as likely to be active on social media<\/a> as the rest of the U.S. population. Over half of moms with young kids in this particular group were between 25 to 34 years old.<\/p>\n

    MILLENIALS, SEARCH ENGINES, AND SOCIAL MEDIA:<\/b>\u00a0 Great piece in Ypulse on millenials\u2019 belief in the efficacy of search engines and social networks, and how it helps bring their generation together<\/a>.\u00a0 @RyanCurrie writes:\u00a0 \u201cSearch dominates most online functions for Millennials, giving them the ability to aggregate the seemingly endless amounts of information online and provide a starting point for their journey down the rabbit hole of the internet.\u201d\u00a0 I would argue, Ryan, that this is true of all of us, not just those born in certain years!<\/p>\n

    See you next week!<\/p>\n

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    To help you keep up with what\u2019s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we\u2019ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we\u2019ve found most useful over the past week. <\/p>\n

    This Week: Teens and ID Theft, Role of Social Media in College Applications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13,7,8,47,6,5,48,25,10,57,55,88,12,82,21],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-cell-phones","tag-cyberbullying","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-digital-literacy","tag-education","tag-internet-safety","tag-media-literacy","tag-online-privacy","tag-online-safety","tag-parents","tag-security","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-social-networks","tag-teens","wpautop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t