June 2nd, 2008
It has been found that Young people living in North Somerset are being targeted by “paedophiles and internet bullies” through social networking sites.
The police have issued steps to take to avoid children from being a victim, “Advice we give out includes not putting a picture on the internet or any contact details such as email addresses and phone numbers or where they go to school”
The full article can be read here
April 25th, 2008
A city council is using the social networking site Bebo to its strengths to communicate their views across to the younger generation.
The council has set up a profile on Bebo “to promote Fairdeal, which is the council’s consumer advice and advocacy service for 11 to 21-year-olds”
From this profile visitors can easily get access to “Fairdeal” where they are able to “get advice on consumer issues and contact the team privately or publicly with a query.”
The full article can be found here
March 28th, 2008
AOL has bought Bebo for an estimated $850 million in cash. The social networking site has an “audience of 7.1 million people”.
You can read the full article here
February 19th, 2008
Top “Media companies including the BBC, Channel 4, Google, Yahoo and social-networking site Bebo” have all signed up to “a new code of conduct”
This was created to give parents better information “about the suitability for children of audiovisual content available on the internet and mobile phones.”
The whole of the article can be found here
January 22nd, 2008
In a survey recently conducted by the independent consumer firm ‘Which?’, testing the top ten social networks, it was found that “Bebo and Facebook achieved the highest scores of 79 per cent and 74 per cent respectively being rated as easier to use than MySpace, and best for socializing.”
The full article can be found here
January 7th, 2008
Bebo has recently in a consumer report been “ judged the best social networking website” just beating Facebook to the top spot.
The complete report can be found here.
December 19th, 2007
Teenagers have teamed up with The Drinkaware Trust to develop a site that promotes the dangers of teenage drinking.
This is the first website to use the direction of using teenagers to give their input and advice to other teenagers on the dangers and warning of the many pitfalls on drinking.
The rest of the article can be found here.