This Bebo hysteria remains as resistent as a viral chest Infection in a house of stoners and is every bit as irritating. For a number of months now media outlets have been churning out a revised and updated version of the original internet and paedophelia scare mongerings. This time the hysteria hinged on social networking sites like Bebo and Myspace.
For a while it died down, but this morning Roger Greene's Media Matter's shamelessly rooted around the bottom of the bag and dragged it all back up again as a filler slot on a clearly cream crackered show. Many of those summoned to discuss social networking sites clearly have no notion of the forms of interaction governing such sites. Instead they parachute themselves in pretending to be 13 year olds with fake accounts, before preceeding to stalk kids in pursuit of the phantom child molesters caustically satirised by that Brasseye special.Labels: Internet, Media, Society
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