Sometimes, amidst all the noise about online privacy, spam on social networking sites, bullying on Bebo and Myspace etc, you stumble across a social media good news story! That recently happened to me. Written by Caroline Overington, the story covers her teen years with her friend Julie, how they grew close at school, and were…
Next time I hear people wail ‘parental responsibility’ when it comes to bullying on line, I have a link to show them! The fact is that parents can take all the action they like to discipline their kids, but their hands are tied because of their children’s ‘rights’. I remember my kids coming home from…
A grieving family is blaming the social networking website Bebo for a 13-year-old boy’s suicide. Sam Leeson, a 13 year old student from Gloucestershire hanged himself. After his death, his family found evidence of bullying on his Bebo page, and believe that the abuse had been ongoing for a number of months. The Full Story…
Following my rant the other day about one sided conversations on Twitter and Stumbleupon, I thought that I would rattle my sabre at another social networking bugbear! Begin Rant: The attitude of some some marketers on networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace is appalling. I’ve met a few lately that assume that because just…
