uk: One Click from Danger

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.

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
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/default.stm

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