Your Children on Facebook? This is a must read
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
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How many facebook friends can you handle
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
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Suicide prevention for social networks
SOCIAL network sites including Facebook, Twitter and MySpace could be scanned for depressed and “at risk” users under a bold new program to combat youth suicide.
The rise in popularity in social networking could allow authorities to spot users at risk and offer help, researchers believe.
Researches from New Zealand’s Victoria University say they have devised a program that scans posts to identify key words that people aged between 18 and 24 are using.
A high proportion of key words could mean that the blogger is at risk of depression, suicide, self-harm or harming others, the researches believe.
“Our technology picks up words or phrases such as ‘depressed’, or ‘I don’t want to live any more’ or ‘I want to kill somebody’,” Dr Tiong-Thye Goh said.
“We analyse the database of phrases and rank them according to frequency of use – if certain key words are used a lot it is likely that the particular person may be emotionally depressed.”
Read more…Suicide prevention for social networks | News | News.com.au
Panasonic tech support through Facebook, Twitter – CNET.com.au
Panasonic tech support through Facebook, Twitter
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Five users sue Facebook for being too social a network – AFP
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Five users sue Facebook for being too social a network
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