BLOG POST BY AISLING SWEENEY Digital Marketing Intern Catfish is a new social media phenomenon. Have you heard of it. Have you been subject to ‘Catfishing?’ If you are a young teen or tween online, do your parents know the term? In this Blog Post Aisling Sweeney looks at the social media and personal dangers of it and offers some advice. ‘Catfishing’ is when someone pretends to be someone they’re not using Facebook or other social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive online romances. (Source: UrbanDictionary.com) While catfishing occurs regularly online, it’s only recently becoming a major
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Day one of Social Media Week is almost over, today we focused on launching our #youngmindsonline campaign. We launched our Young Minds Online Survey & a fabulous new Young Minds Online Logo, we also shared facts and a blog post listing out the importance of protecting Your Online Reputation and to top it all off we made it on Galway Bay FM News before the day had even began! Pat on the back to us! We are going to continue our celebrations of Social Media Week and campaigning for Young Minds Online for the rest of the week and here is what
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Importance of protecting your online reputation Your Online Reputation is not just for business, adults or third level students. Your Online Reputation is YOU! Google has an ever-lasting memory and your online reputation will stick like mud. Your personal brand is your reputation. You can’t buy it, you can’t sell it. However, you can damage it by your online activity. Your brand in life is very important because we live by our reputation. Your peers, parents, teachers, acquaintances, employer and prospective employers can all ‘judge’ or give an opinion about you based on the online reputation you have created of
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As part of our celebrations of Social Media Week #SMW14 we are launching our survey of Young Minds Online in the Republic of Ireland. We are inviting teens and tweens to complete our survey which will give us a better understanding of the habits of young people on social networking sites. Please share this survey with a teen or tween you know. We do not ask for names, addresses or contact details, so it is completely anonymous. We will share the results of the survey on our Blog and also on our social networking sites. Click here to take survey
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