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What Social Media means for young people | Ross McCulloch | TEDxBlythswoodSquare


my previous school class I did not go to
some kind of liberal elitist girl but
was not rescuing that one this is a
specialty please anyone guess you’re
having that picture I see one hazard
against not a first-rate I’ll spoil it
for you so I am this and on the rape is
my friend mark
Mike Rosen so fast forward about seven
years from here if they’re late
ninety-five mark was the first head
behind you to have them and it’s
probably the posh tale and they were
high school to half than Manette and I
looked at a very normal host on a
council estate and the Berlin market
middle class family I used to go into
Mitch often and it in her sakes and we
would spend hours and hours and this
whole brave new world exploring things
baby than answers to questions they knew
what the enemy could think of the thing
that was really exciting for us was
actually those human connections that we
felt loneliness or name name Phi was the
year things like Lycos chaplains was
you’re old enough to remember those and
things like CompuServe chat rooms sort
of crush them
Belden human connections and late
speaking people all across the world
some things in months and months of
dating and haven’t play out this gonna
leave that almost felt more like reality
for me than what high school actually
currently some things I was not very
good to me
not going to keep inflation today as
well for me layfon lady felt much more
like real life than the life that I had
nice to sew and fast forward and I think
we need nickname things like can I send
message or chemo and then MySpace and
Facebook and then Mexico where I have
made some of my best friends I spent
time in California and me this year I
have two muffins and they’re on Twitter
and my friend is Nicola who I know cause
when we fought in the East End and they
might eat a guy that she met have a talk
Chile Kepler’s forum and they once in
California and so for me that world
online as as real as the world we are
all operating in here and I’m also lucky
enough know that I explained my working
life working with charities helping them
navigate that world only and making
Saints of the student connections and
where they need to fit within that space
okay and Haley can work with some young
people who have been amazing work
mobilizing bringing about social change
right here in Scotland using them as a
tool for bid may be enlightening fine it
was not the norm tablet and AI was one
of the few people I know who knew that
we think we’ve been online Lebanese have
an Internet as the not late imagine what
that must feel like if you young person
all your peers have access then there
and you do not get online or you get on
links for rather clear out of life
or an Castle cafe using their Wi-Fi
imagine what I must feel like to meso
and with Shimon connections that most
young people take for granted and so and
yet so lose no on those human
connections and and it’s often those
children and those young people are most
excluded they’re the ones that could
benefit from the stuff the most so that
young woman’s gone through the care
system who struggles to make things
where who keeps that network if leonese
online and that young man who fakes his
gig and finally speaks to someone about
become a new on lane and can share with
them in a way that you cannot do with
his family what he spends within the
school that disabled jail too has been
told by his bins that he spoke to about
Bominable Warren Lang who connects with
people with someone connection so
thinking about I need to be supporting
people who need us most
what the needs and relays and so to make
sense all the stumps of the Eagle hide
amongst you’ll notice I am NOT a young
person so I’ve no idea why I’m from
talking about young people so I went to
a saloon was Academy and these thing and
I spoke and so this is the hoops I’ve
been lucky enough to do some work on
what makes sense so the big thing that
they told me and the thing that I found
most interests and I think the thing for
the adults in this room
Heather and as the solution that the
Terran real-life so telling kids that
online relationships and connections and
friendships aren’t real life is hugely
patronizing and potentially hugely
damaging and one of the other woman in
the group really founded really open
available experiences and talked about
the fact that she’d been really badly
bullied in real life and I talked about
the fact that her friendships and those
connections that she needs online where
her reality that was her life and that
was her safe space on lane the idea that
a novel in her life would Taylor that
those connections in those friendships
have no meaning and they’re not real
life I think is really hurtful what that
must have felt like for like young women
who did not have those connections and
her classroom we should be randomly
throwing together a bunch of codes and
so start to think about simple set that
we can take as addicts that simple
simple state of just acknowledging that
those online friendships are really as a
must holiday as those connections that
young people make and soon that same
young women also talked about the fact
that that billion that happened in VA
had spilled onto on where people
basically handed on various social media
networks and setting up fake personas
that Iraq so one when I am NOT here
today I will tell you today that this is
a happy clappy world where everything is
going to be okey
people who only to make friendships is
actually we need to inflate the reality
that their internet is real life with
its ups and downs and it’s roller
coasters that is what was like okay so
this is that when you sleep so how you
do we ensure that we don’t paint a
one-dimensional faction and they’re to
be treated with respect
which evening people’s online
relationships The Adventures of I was
doing some research let’s talk I was
looking into supporting young people to
make friendships on the Chinese face the
first thing that you find on people when
you click on support and young people
make friendships on leg is this so
talking to young people are very
extremism and when I do the search just
a very general search on the Tate
website last video probably never be
sure to take website because I say so
this is what your favor you said jump
people the first video how young people
join violent extremist groups so already
positive we’re all adults support young
people online and this is the way the
reference though is there are all
extremists so we need to stop people
that’s one dimensional picture than
another is entirely filled with risks
and danger we need to acknowledge that
there are lotsa danger zone when there
are people here in joking there are
people cultivating extremism those are
real people the danger is if we repeat
there’s one dimensional patch of them
and they and tell young people that
sorts lately recitation and even farther
away and pick them an even father of the
interest page we have these meaningful
so and really interesting piece of
exceptional room called Alexandra Samuel
who and technology research and research
on chilling today are from 10,000 pins
and came up with basically three
definite groups of pins in terms of how
you they communicate for children about
their own air and digital technologies
and the first group or what she
identifies as digital learner so people
appear to do everything in the power to
stop the codes using technology and
having access to them and the second
third of imposing this appearance that
she looked at a deal for where digital
anymore so although the kids to have
access to things like iPads and access
them and their but don’t speak something
sits they let my feeling but don’t have
conversations I kind of mana of what
channels they’re actually using a single
and also the takes of adults who use
this heaviest M digital natives how lazy
Tim concocted by adults that does not
reflect the reality of how children use
internet we have this assumption because
they can use an iPad is worn mean that
all young people must somehow really
instinctively know with digital tools a
complete nonsense the third good are
what’s known as digital men are so good
parents who realize that the off switch
is the only method of control and the
only way that we speak about that on
there we have hidden a better one
dimensional picture we have possibly
could intervene in great arrests when
they come to that point of us they have
an access them and which they’re never
these digital manners are also the group
of people who are working at those young
people to understand that
technology’s an emergent have been you
was young people who are about to go in
our world to what we’re all nation is
going to be the norm and a whole
religious answers we’re digital skills
are going to be critical for health care
we teach and I hope interferes and and
also think about more than whatever
friendships and relationships are going
to be pleaded on me simply block and
access then and it does not equip young
people for the future that they’re going
to face so think of it as adults in this
room and how you can we aspire to become
digital matters not just parents but
here to teach other young person’s
things if you are social work they’re
making versions like that if you work
for the charity and a project workers
young people and they don’t have that
bunch of digital men on the leaf who can
use fire to me that the generator so and
they watch your intestine a baby
Alexander she dug a little bit deeper in
the terms of those digital amuro’s
Digital enablers and men watching food
was children of Benjamin leather so
those people who do not let the kids get
access to technology and get online two
times more likely than choking of
digital mentors they’re gonna access
porn to go and post offensive comments
online there were three times more
likely to go on to impersonate one of
their peers or ten personally and add a
one-lane so in the short term was
digital image think they’re doing the
right things that block in their kids
from having access to their technology
for what happens is they have L ik
weapon those children when they finally
get online to understand what the real
risks are on Lainey and hoping they can
take advantage of those positive things
at that unusual of this book at the lots
young people less actually happen to
create a lot and one of the things I
thought was very interesting what our
young people I spoke to said one was
Academy said adults are hypocrites and
she’s absolutely ready so she talked
with the fact that among chastise her
all the time because she was an
Instagram post lots of autographs and
she speaks to people all over the world
a bit stuff that she’s interested and
their long tails as those friendships
aren’t real but her mom has posted
pictures all about every single day
since the day she was born only among
constantly argues with random people on
her Facebook feet but the scene one is
telling us young person that the stuff
that she’s doing Instagram has no
validity whatsoever the shooting
actions and so thank you very much
adults how can we be good role models
for those children and people how can we
speak to know but complexities of those
on language the NSPCC are really clear
at least on this chance that our most
unlikely to access an appropriate
material and inappropriate relationships
on lane and the ones where there’s an
idol in their life talking openly and
transparently are both in a net worth of
not just blocking and okay so I’m gonna
shock no and will we do the slate and
you don’t know a bit peaky gonna have a
look at the peak there an amazing
Charlie and do the work in these things
and Oliver class the new and I kind of
thank this group enough to take my
jumbled thoughts and it’s something that
has some meaning so if you are now don’t
try and be a digital manner of those
children your ways don’t paint a one-dimensional petulant and
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