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3 Concept Statements
The Internet is a way to connect with your friends, loved ones, and business partners, and even strangers around the world. Learning the ins and outs social networks should not be a complicated headache, but a process that provides you with pleasure and amusement from the everyday interaction with those a world apart.

The Internet today is built into everyday tasks. Learning how to use this network safety can stretch your possibilities of connecting with others. With this series, learning new applications is fun and simple, so simple in fact, even your cat can have its own web page.

Privacy on the Internet gets a little lost sometimes, especially with social networks like Facebook and Myspace. However, learning to use proper Internet safety can allow individuals to easily communicate with others in a quick and fun way.

Audience Persona
Sue is a 52-year-old schoolteacher at Westbrook High in Arizona. She is constantly nagging her students to turn off their cell phones, IPods, and laptops during her English course. Sue has never been much into reading textbooks, for she enjoys a book with an enticing storyline, like her Nora Roberts romance adventure novels. However, she has recently been feeling her age, for each year her students seem to be into some new piece of technology.
She has mastered the basics of her school computer, like e-mail and solitaire, but she is looking for something that can allow her to connect with other avid book readers. However, being the money saver that she is, she does not want to fly out to the yearly English teachers conference in New York, not to mention the endless chit chat that she would have to go through to find someone with her same interests. Furthermore, she wants a way to communicate with her son Erik, a 7th year student at the University of California, that never seems has the money to pay his phone bill.
Recently however, Sue has been hearing a lot on Channel 5 news about Internet hackers, identity theft, and Internet stalkers that are gaining access through people putting personal information on social networks. This makes her nervous for her students and herself. However, being the independent woman that she is, Sue does not want to ask her son, students, or co-workers for help navigating the internet or social networks safely, she would rather read a textbook before doing such a thing.
Lucky for her, one day while she was doing a simple Google search on her lunch break, she came across an Amazon.com link to a series of books on Internet safety and social networks for ‘dummies.’ After reading the blurb listed, she found them to be quit unlike a textbook, with a simple format, humor, and independent navigation. That night, after seeing that the public library did not carry these books, she went to borders and picked her own copy.