Focus Group discovering's:

Focus group discovering’s:

After completing my filming session of the focus group, here is what I’ve leaned from these members of the group.

Firstly when asked the group about how they keep safe online, they mentioned how they don’t give out any personal information (passwords, addresses, phone numbers etc.) and also that they look into the websites and accounts they go into. An according to the members of the group, these methods have worked effectively for them.

Secondly i asked the group if they talked to a stranger while online. Out of the four people in said group, half of them have admitted to talking with a stranger online. They said they did this through networking to meet new people in a 'controlled' chat room. The other two members of the group said they've haven't done this. 

Thirdly three of the four people that were in the group said they have never been cyber bullied, while one of the people in-group admitted that, she had bullied someone online. She did this by making fun of someone on a website called ‘putt penguin’ was later reported by the website.

Fourthly I asked the group weather they have given out personal information to people online. Everyone within the group responded by saying yes, in which they admitted to giving out information such as credit card details and email addresses to certain websites. But they’ve only done this to websites that are used for online shopping such as Amazon and PayPal in order to order products online via the web.

And finally I asked the group weather they have met up with someone they have talked to online. While the group did answer yes to the question, they then went into detail of that they’d only meet with said person if they had done the following before hand: 

1.      Speak with the person via websites such as: Facebook and Skype over a long period of time.
2.      They would meet with said person in a public place during broad daylight.
3.      If this person was friends with or knew someone they themselves were friendly with.
4.      They would meet up with said person if they felt the person was ‘legitimate’ and if they had spoken face to face online.