Teen & Young Adult Resources

Books and Resources for Older Teens and Adults

• Lol . . .OMG! What Every Student Needs to Know about Online Reputation Management, Digital Citizenship and Cyberbyllying by Matt Ivester, founder of Juicycampus.com, 2011
• General privacy tips for teens and young adults.

Interactive Sites and Quizzes for Younger Teens

• Test your privacy savvy with safetyclicks’ “Online Safety IQ Challenge” provided by AOL.
• Take the Friend Finder Quiz from OnGuardOnline.gov to test your “friending” savvy. (Recommended for middle school students)
• Let Me Know (LMK): Life Online is an interactive  site for teens from Girl Scouts and Windows offering excellent pages on Privacy, Mobile Devices, Social Networking, Cybersecurity and more.

Mobile Privacy

• Understanding Mobile Apps provided by OnGuardOnline.gov
• Mobile tips and questions to helo protect your privacy when using a mobile device.

 Sexting and Sextortion

• Be aware of sextortion, a crime in which Internet predators catch victims in embarrassing situations online and threaten to expose them unless they create sexually explicit photos or videos for them.
• The Workplace Privacy Data Management & Security Report outlines the legal ramifications of sexting.

Social Networking and Privacy

• How to Update Your Facebook Privacy Settings offered by HowStuffWorks.com
• 5 Ways to Control Your Facebook Privacy by Social Media Examiner
• Recommended Facebook Privacy Settings for Teens from Connect Safely.
• Tips and questions you should ask to help protect you when using social networking sites provided by the National Cyber Security Alliance.
• Learn about Facebook’s Data Use Policy and view interactive tools and other resources.

Videos

• “Exposed,” by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) gives consequences of sexting and oversharing online.
• OnGuardOnline.gov  has a library of videos and tutorials
• Think Time: How Does Cyberbullying Affect You? by My Secure CyberSpace. Cyberbullying involves respecting your own privacy and that of others.  
• Netsmartz for teens
• Learn to STOP.THINK.CONNECT. before you go online with these PSAs from Microsoft and STOP.THINK.CONNECT.