[fr] Encore une panique au sujet des photos d'ados sur les réseaux sociaux. Gardez la tête froide. Vais bloguer si j'ai le temps ces prochains jours.
Daily Mail is shocked, shocked to find teenage cleavage on Bebo; reprints it in the paper, beside their bikini stories
The article in question, available online, is Millions of girls using Facebook, Bebo and Myspace ‘at risk’ from paedophiles and bullies.
No time to read it in full now, or blog about it as I should, but a couple of reminders:
- Keep your head cool and check out the facts
- Don’t fall for the online predator paranoia
- Here’s a link to the source report — do your homework before reblogging the Daily Mail
- Link to other news sources on the topic to explore
- Some advice to parents
And if you were wondering, yes, I give talks on the subject in schools (in French or English). List of past talks. More information on that in French.
I was interviewed a bit less than a year ago by the BBC around fear parents were feeling about Facebook:
If I have time, I’ll try to blog about this tomorrow, but the stack of things to do right now is quite high, and I’m not sure I’ll get around to doing it before this is cold.