Phew. At least there's no danger to boys. Or adults.

That article is nothing more than an excuse to show pictures of 16 year old's boobs. I for one will be registering my outrage, as soon as I've finished...umm...

Nice work doing that 'research' if you can get it.

I just found the whole 'look, she's 14, there's a lot of cleavage on display, let's face it, you're never going to find this not under the guise of outrage.' A bit more real than what the story was complaining about.

To be fair, from what I understand, it's almost impossible to completely delete your facebook profile.

I actually sort of agree with the fact that people are at risk from these sites, especially those who list out all their personal details. But it's hardly isolated to Facebook, Bebo and Myspace. It applies to every site that takes any personal details such as your age and displays them. Like, most of the forums out there.

You don't have to put personal information on Facebook, only what you choose. It is not a requirement. I don't really have anything personal on there. You can also restrict who views certain parts of your profile.

Children should not be using the internet unsupervised, even the most technophobic of us know that it is 98% porn.

True, but you know it kids think. If there's a space for their details they'll shove them in nievely. Plus it's the "in" thing, or something.


That's really the key thing. There are various bits of software around that let you view what your children have been up to.
In my experience a lot of parents think it's the internet's job to police their kids.

'Where are the parents of these yobs?! IRRESPONSIBLE!'

'WHAT?! We must supervise our kids? FUCK THAT!'

NoScript and much vaunted COMMONSENSE plx

Pictured: Chaotic scenes as alcohol-fuelled Facebook party to mark the end of drinking on the tube ends in violence

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... lence.html

I reckon it's the guy on the left's first day.

"I'm arresting someone! I'm ACTUALLY arresting someone!"

LMAO
maybe he's a bit drunk too?

Totally. I hardly use facebook and have tried to close my account and it's highly annoying to only be able to deactivate it. I reactivated it with minimal data because I now live in Singapore and occasionally use it to keep in touch with a few people back in the UK.

What I dislike about facebook is more to do with us being subjected to beta testing for the future facebook, which will be completely ad driven, and that they are selling data to marketing companies as we speak. I wrote a story on companies hired by Sainsbury, Nike and others, trawling through peoples Wall postings, likes and dislikes, groups and links, and even personal private messages compiling demographics data.

All those silly little games are just testing the viability of bigger, monetary driven programmes.

And as for letting you post your mug AND address and other personal details -- well, I don't think facebook should make that so easy (if you want to, you should opt in, rather than have to opt out) since that just gives insurance and bank fraudsters an easy time (not necessarily to clone your details, but to provide addresses)
I wrote another story about that -- you'd be amazed how truly globalised organised fraud gangs are and how long they take (paying talented but poor IT whizkids to go through school years before they take part in any crime) in their efforts. A huge public database of names, faces, addresses and other personal data is just handing stuff on a plate to some people....

Now yes, if you post something on the Internet it's not private, but facebook suckers you into to thinking this info is confined to its walls.

There is a good reason Microsoft (which already paid for a 240 mln dollar stake in facebook, valuing it THEN at $15 billion, Li Ka-shing owns another $120 mln) is trying to take it over. When it goes ad-driven, its going to be huge. If it tries to IPO instead, financial analysts are talking in terms of $20 bln.

NoScript ftw! I hope that blocks most of the shit.

You bastards! This was all your fault!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029534/Facebook-generation-little-regard-secrecy-blamed-losing-MoDs-130-laptops-theft.html

Strangely, the report does actually give Facebook a nod:

http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/3E756D20 ... 080430.pdf

Nice to see it spun nicely out of context, though.

I.e. Facebook has more influence on your social awareness (i.e. respect for privacy etc) than your boss, job, family, responsibilities to all, your own pride, etc etc

Just reverse it: 'Now British government to teach 'social awareness' outrage'