Social Networking and Cybersecurity Best Practices

Homework 1 emphasizes using social networks such as Facebook. In this homework, you will:

A. Create (if you don’t already have one) and use a Facebook account to interact with friends.

Note: For these activities within Facebook, you are welcome to include your professor and other students in the class. However, you do not have to. You are welcome to just use your known friends.

B. Perform the following specific activities:

1. If needed, create your Facebook account.

2. Login and personalize your account with a picture and provide other education, sports, interests and activities as desired.

3. Find and friend someone in Facebook. (You can always defriend them later.)

4. Try to find a childhood, school friend or co-worker in Facebook.

5. Post on the walls of 2 of your friends in Facebook.

6. Read your News Feed in Facebook. “Like” a friends status update if you want to.

7. Chat with a friend through Facebook.

8. Create and manage a photo album in Facebook.

9. Configure and customize your privacy settings in Facebook.

C. Prepare a well-written paper no more than 3–5 pages in length

In this paper you will cover the process of setting up the Facebook account, issues you encountered, privacy settings and the justification for selecting those setting, and how you envision using this account in the future. Be sure to show a screen captures and a description of how you successfully completed activities 1-9 listed above. Discuss any personal or computer security issues you have with using Facebook or other social networking sites.

Submission requirements:

Your name should be clearly listed on the first page along with the class/section, professor and due date. Your document should contain page numbers at the top of each page. Single or double space line formatting is acceptable. All references used for your report should be included in APA style format.

Rubric Name: Homework 1

Criteria	Meets
Facebook account creation/use	10 points Describes the process of creating or using a Facebook account.
Account creation/use challenges	10 points Discusses issues and challenges associated with creating or using a Facebook account.
Privacy setting justification	15 points Describes the process and justifies the privacy settings used for the Facebook account.
Future use of Facebook	10 points Describes how you envision your Facebook account may be used in the future.
Facebook activity completion	30 points Provides screen captures and descriptions of successfully completing the required activities (activities 1-9) in this assignment.
Social networking use concerns	10 points Lists and describes any concerns related to using Facebook or similar social networking sites.
Document well-organized and written	15 points Document is well-organized, and contains minimal spelling and grammar errors. The student’s name is clearly listed on the first page along with the class/section, professor and due date. The document contains page numbers at the top of each page. Single or double space line formatting is used. APA style format is used for references.