Is Your 8 Year Old On Facebook?

June 22nd, 2011

Children as young as eight are joining online social networking sites, and primary school pupils are increasingly exposed to cyberbullying, a senior officer at the Australian Communications and Media Authority has warned.

”The issues such as cyberbullying and the excessive use of technology that [were] in secondary schools 12 or 18 months ago are really shifting pretty quickly into primary schools,” said Greg Gebhart, a senior education trainer with the authority. ”We’re seeing a whole growth in kids using Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. It’s getting younger and younger.”

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What Happens On Facebook Gets To The Police

June 21st, 2011

You can do it all on Facebook — post photos, catch up with old friends and, apparently, arrange for someone to whack your child’s father.

Cops say that that’s exactly what London Eley of Southwest Philadelphia in the US did on May 23, after she had a heated argument with Corey Jerome White, her baby’s father.

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The Weiner Scandal Continues

June 20th, 2011

At least three months before the revelation that former congressman Anthony Weiner was sending lewd messages and photos to women online, a small group of self-described conservatives was monitoring his exchanges with women on Twitter.

Now there is evidence that someone else created two false identities on Twitter in order to collect information to use against him.

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Australian MP Working On Facebook Legislation

June 16th, 2011

A South Australian Family First MP is working on legislation to force Facebook to give parents a bigger say in the online activities of their children.

Upper house MP Dennis Hood is drafting a bill that would allow parents to be better informed and to have more control over information their children post on the social networking site.

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Court Case Discussed On Facebook, Juror Jailed

June 15th, 2011

A British juror will be sent to jail for discussing a drug and corruption trial with a defendant on Facebook, a judge said.

Justice Igor Judge told Joanne Fraill - the first juror in Britain to be convicted for using the internet during a trial- that she would get a prison term when she is sentenced later in the week. The maximum sentence for contempt is two years in jail.

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Facebook Approaches 700M Users

June 14th, 2011

Facebook is approaching 700 million members but its growth is slowing and it lost users in the United States and Canada last month, according to a report.

Facebook itself does not regularly release membership figures except to announce milestones such as when it crossed 500 million users in July last year.

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FB Sex Ratings Investigated By Queensland Police

June 13th, 2011

Queensland police are investigating ‘root rater’ Facebook pages that publicly rate the sexual abilities of school students after the state government moved to have them shut down today.

Browns Plains State High School students in Brisbane became the latest cohort to be targeted on Facebook pages calling on their peers and strangers to rate their sexual performance.

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A Mother’s Social Network Campaign To Keep Her Children

June 9th, 2011

When US mother Alaina Giordano’s story of losing custody of her two children because of breast cancer went viral online, it seemed like a callous injustice.

Blogs and social networking sites rallied to her cause, and soon she had a law firm willing to appeal the judge’s decision.

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Privacy Concerns Surround Facebook’s New Feature

June 8th, 2011

Facebook has quietly expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about the privacy practices of the world’s top social networking service.

The feature, which Facebook automatically enabled for Facebook users, has been expanded from the United States to “most countries”, Facebook said on its official blog today.

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The French Ban Twitter & Facebook on TV

June 7th, 2011

No plugging of Twitter accounts or Facebook pages on French broadcast airwaves.

France’s audiovisual authority says TV and radio stations that promote their sites on the two gargantuan social media services on air are engaging in secret - and unfair - advertising.

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