SCOTLAND'S leading alcohol doctors are calling on the four UK governments to support a ban on the promotion of alcohol on social networking sites.
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Scotsman on 9th Mar 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
I can easily see this happening! Click on the image for a full-sized view of this projected version of all that will remain of social networking sites after Jacqui "Jackboots" Smith and her comrades have done their worst…The comments at Old Holborn's site are also worth a look.
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JohnMWard on 10th Apr 2009 (via wwwjohn-m-ward.blogspot.com)
Paedophiles are increasingly using social networking sites and other message boards to distribute and sell sick images of children, a watchdog warns today.
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Telegraph on 13th May 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Predicting which companies and software are going to prosper and which are going to fizzle and disappear is a notoriously unreliable business, but it certainly looks at the moment as if Facebook, Myspace and Bebo are pretty well entrenched as the major social networking sites not only in the UK but also in many other
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 7th Aug 2008 (via libdemvoice.org)
Social networking sites like Facebook could be monitored by the government under anti-terror plans.
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BBCPolitics on 25th Mar 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
As Sam Leith asks, why? “The main problem with our security services monitoring social networking sites is that it will be a colossal waste of time. Facebook is the Reuters of inanity: a news agency for stuff nobody wants to know. “Dave is playing on Facebook. Dave is a bit annoyed. Dave is going for a
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PickledPolitics on 26th Mar 2009 (via pickledpolitics.com)
SCOTTISH police are monitoring social networking sites in a bid to prevent the riots across England from spreading north of the border.
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Scotsman on 9th Aug 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
Viviane Reding, member of the European Commission for Information Society and Media, has given a speech on Social Networking. It will be the first public statement of the Commissioner on this subject.
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PublicTechnology on 29th Sep 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
Cyberkids abandon social networking sites
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LiberalConspiracy on 6th Aug 2009 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
There is a problem with SNS (social networking sites) that is the ability to use the various social media sites and reach a wide audience and engage with them: “Currently, Social Media is disparate and fragmented, making the conversation difficult to track, find, and use”. What brands are developing is the ‘Social Media Press Release' which collapses together the information of a...
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CampaignsBlog on 17th Jul 2008 (via totalpolitics.com)
Facebook and MySpace could be required to hold data about every person users correspond with The Home Office has defended proposals to require social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to retain details of their users' movements on the internet. It was reported today that social networking sites could be required to hold data about every person that users correspond with via the si...
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Guardian on 25th Mar 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)