Overview of Skype and Facebook

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Connecting
and Sharing
Online
Bryan Sippel
Friday, November 5, 2010

2. Introduction
General

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Agenda
• Social Networking
• Skype: Talking online
• Facebook: Sharing
information online

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Prerequisites
• Basic knowledge of how to use a
computer
• Internet, keyboard, and mouse
• Home high speed Internet is ideal but not necessary
• Email address
• Comfort with accessing and sending email

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Assumptions
We will have fun
Willing to try, maybe fail,
try again
Stop me – ask
questions???

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Technology
is a tool
Not hard
It is different and will change tomorrow
Need an understanding of the basics

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Goals
• Provide a foundation
Cannot cover all aspects and areas of
connecting and sharing online today
• Enable you to explore
…but what we can do is provide the
information you need to understand the
basics and explore on your own

8. Beyond Today
• Drop-In Help
• Sign Up Help Sessions
– Check the Vista or speak to Nicki Long for
details
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Who am I?
• Born in Surrey, England
• Grew up in Oakville, ON
• Education:
– BAH, Psychology
– MSc, Organizational Behaviour
• Job:
– Senior Functional Analyst, Queen’s
University

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• New addition to our family
• Love technology
• Sports: Montreal Canadiens
fan

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Introduction
Social Networking

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“Yes, you.
You control the
Information Age.
Welcome to your
world.”
Time Magazine
December 13, 2006

13. History
and
Structure

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• Online communities
• People who share interests and/or activities, or who are
interested in exploring the interests and activities of others
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking

19. Structure
Internal Social
Networks (ISN)
• a closed/private
community that
consists of a group of
people
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External social
networks (ESN)
• open/public and
available to all web
users to communicate
• can be smaller
specialized communities
or they can be large
generic social
networking sites

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Common Features
• Users can upload a picture of themselves
• Create a “profile”
• Can often be "friends" with other users
– Typically you need to have a mutual
"agreement" between friends
• Privacy controls: who can see your
profile, contact you, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking

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How does it
work?

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Use a computer to
access the Internet
Use the Internet to
connect to other
people using online
services

23. • Create an account
Username
Password
• Connect with other users
• Share content
Steps

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Talk

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What is Skype?
How does it work?
How do I sign up?

26. What is Skype?
• A free service to communicate over the Internet

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Features
Skype offers all the features of regular phone service and
many are free!

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Call Plans
http://www.skype.com/prices/callrates/?currency=CAD#allRatesTab
Free!

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VoIP
Voice Over Internet Protocol
How does it
work?

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Webcam
• small video camera
• either external or internal
• can be one way video or two
way video
• can also be used to take
pictures and share
External
Internal

31. What do you need?
• Skype account
• Microphone
–Internal
–External (Audio In or USB)
• Webcam (optional)
– Internal or External
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Download Skype software
www.skype.com
Instructions will be provided
Install Skype software
Instructions will be provided
Create Skype Name
e.g Bryan.Sippel
How do I sign
up?

33. Demo

34. • www.skype.com

35. • Click on ‘Download’

36. • Scroll down to see ‘Download now’ button

37. • Click on ‘Run’

38. • Click on ‘Run’ again

39. • Welcome screen: select ‘Options’

40. • Change options if needed (not necessary)

41. • Read and review License Agreement

42. • After clicking ‘I Agree – Install’ select or
deselect the Google Toolbar (no impact on

43. • Will take 2 – 5 minutes to install…

44. • … still going …

45. • Click ‘Start Skype’

46. • Create a Skype account
• Remember your password

47. • After completing the information, click ‘Next’

48. • Enter your Email and Country and City
(optional)

49. • After clicking “Sign In” it will take a few minutes
for Skype to create the new account and launch
the program

54. • If you do not see Skype, click on the ‘Skype’
button in the bottom taskbar

55. • Search for Contacts using the Skype Directory

56. • Once you add a Contact you will be able to call
them using Skype

57. • Click on ‘Call’ to start a conversation

59. • To start Skype later, click on Start > All
Programs > Skype > Skype

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Information
350 million active users
3.5 billion pieces of content shared each month

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Facebook
• Status Updates
– What are you doing right now?
• Profile
– Information about yourself, as little or as much as
you want (e.g. Birthday, Marital Status, Location,
Education, Employment, etc.)
• Wall
– Short comments to each other, like a public
bulletin board

62. • News Feed
– Summary of Friends activities
• Messages
– Similar to email in Facebook

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Piece by piece…

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Toolbar

65. Pages and Status Update

66. News Feed

67. Advertising
• Currently how
Facebook makes money
• Free service =
advertising

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/five-tips-to-manage-facebooks-new-privacy-settings/article1417501/
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Privacy
1) Control what is public
2) Maintain friends list
e.g. Family, Friends, and Colleagues
1) Protect your photos
2) Read the fine print on apps
3) Say bye for good
Best rule: Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want
your mother to see

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Tourwww.facebook.com

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Summary
• Foundation My hope is that you can use this
presentation as a foundation and build on it as you
explore online
• Tools An introduction to tools available for you
to connect and share online with other people

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References
Computer Messaging History
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/09/04/computer-messaging-before-the-web-%E2%80%93-a-visual-timeline-
1960-1990/
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/09/11/computer-messaging-history-part-2-%E2%80%93-a-visual-timeline-1990-
2009/
Google Images
Enter a search at http://www.google.ca and when viewing the results you will see an Images button in the top
left corner. Clicking on ‘Images’ will display the pictures/images Google has found matching your search. I
used Google Images search to find most of the pictures/images used in this presentation.
Information
http://blog.compete.com/2009/02/09/facebook-myspace-twitter-social-network/
Time’s Person of the Year: You
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
Wikipedia Articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0