During the BBC’s Panorama’s investigation into the vulnerability of youngsters online, we found a number of cases in which teenagers and younger children had been approached by predators on social networking sites.The Panorama researcher set up a virtual identity of a 14-year-old girl on three social networking sites.Keen to understand more about how this works and, by extension, how children might avoid such dangers, a researcher in our office set up a virtual identity of a 14-year-old girl on three social networking sites. She took on the name Jane Brown and this is her diary.To watch the programme, see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/7174814.stm
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