Ofcom Finds Perverts On Facebook, MySpace and Bebo
“MILLIONS OF GIRLS AT RISK ONLINE,” says the Mail’s front-page headline. “Shock report reveals parents are blind to dangers of Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.”
The talks of paedophiles and bullying. The Mail has seen a report by the communications watchdog Ofcom.
Says the Mail: “Teenage girls think nothing of posting profiles accompanied by sexually provocative pictures of themselves along with personal details including names, addresses and the school they attend.”
The Mail pulls on its dog collar and looks of evidence of filth and degradation. It finds the profile of one 14 year old, and shows its readers a picture of her cleavage.
There’s anther shot of a blonde 16-year-old who wants to be model. Dressed in “nothing but a waistcoat and briefs, she poses provocatively on a bed and standing on a window-sill”.
There’s another image of a 15-yar-old girl grabbing her breasts as “she mimics a pose from a pornographic model’s repertoire”, such as features in less upmarket organs.
It’s all absolutely disgusting. And if any Mail reader wants to find out more about this sink of filth, they can sign up for social networking site for free and look for themselves…
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:34 am
Bloody hell, when I was young I got told of for dusting my cleavage with sparkly glitter…..
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Me too, but then I was working as a builder at the time
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
June,
When you were young, I would’ve thought that painting your cleavage with woad would have been more in fashion.
…sorry.
Who said it wasn’t blue glitter stuff?
Anyway getting woad off is another matter
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Bebo? Yech, Bebo’s so like yech, I mean you know. My friend’s on facebook and she says that’s like so ok you know so I may try myspace .
(Courtesy of Viz in case Bounty Hunter is checking)
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
It’s difficult to feel sorry for the girls at risk when they’re all showing off their boobs.
Maybe society will have to face the fact that a well developed, well fed teenage girl can be as randy as a teenage boy? And then we can all save our panic for the genuinely vulnerable - not the happy slapper next-door.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:24 am
Hey
I have had a bebo account since I was 16, I am now 18, and I have NEVER posted a explicit photo, shared personal details or had my page open for public viewing.
This site when I first signed up was awesome I could keep in contact with friends and family and I also met my long term boyfriend, whom I’m very very happy with, on this same site.
But I noticed a change in my friends profile photos, as they got more comfortable using the site, they increasingly become more provocative, not to the extreme of posing in their underwear, but up there.
This is all due to the fact that our society is changing and it has become more acceptable to do so, with the media, movie and music stars behavior.
Teenage girls and boys need to just be careful of whom they talk to and the sites moderators may need to get a wee bit more strict on the posting of photos.