Even after 15 years in child protection, I was shocked by what I encountered when I spent just five minutes on Facebook posing as a 14-year-old girl. Within 90 seconds, a middle-aged man wanted to perform a sex act in front of me.
I was deluged by strangers asking stomach-churning questions about my sexual experience. I was pressured to meet men with whom I’d never before communicated.
So I wasn’t surprised that a vulnerable teenager, Ashleigh Hall, was groomed on Facebook before being brutally raped and killed.
Read more…I posed as a girl of 14 on Facebook. What followed will sicken you | Mail Online
HUMAN brains can only remember up to 150 meaningful relationships, despite the huge amount of Facebook friends some people can gather.
Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary anthropology at Oxford University, says that this number has been the same throughout history and among different societies.
“The interesting thing is that you can have 1500 friends (online) but when you actually look at traffic on sites, you see people maintain the same inner circle of around 150 people that we observe in the real world,” Prof Dunbar told the Times Online.
Last year, Facebook’s in-house research scientist Cameron Marlow told The Economist he found that Facebook users only actively communicate with a few of their online friends.
Read more…Human brain can only handle up to 150 Facebook friends – Professor Robin Dunbar | News.com.au
