Socila+networking+-+Harvey+lockwood

Social networking is a social structure for others to communicate with friends close or apart And for letting people know what you’re doing. By status updates Different sites are: *Facebook *Twitter *bebo *my space *MSN **__Impacts to Children __** Citizens and governments have been concerned by a misuse by child and teenagers of social network services, particularly in relation to online sexual predators. A certain number of actions have been engaged by governments to better understand the problem and find some solutions.A 2008 panel concluded that technological fixes such as age verification and scans are relatively ineffective means of apprehending online predators. In May 2010, a child pornography social networking site with hundreds of members was dismantled by law enforcement. It was deemed "the largest crimes against children case brought anywhere by anyone!!!!!!!!!!! **__MODERN ACCESS __**  People these days are able to access social networking by more than just the computer be acess it by phones, iPods’ and laptops!  **__PRIVACY __**  I have facebook so I am always cautious about who can look at my profile as there is more and there are more and more paedophiles on social networking now than there has ever been! So you have to be mega careful of your security and who you become friends with!  **__CYBER BULLYING __**  There is more and more cases of cyber bullying with people sending evil messages to people in a form of weak action! **__ STATS __** 350Million people have Facebook!!! On average 4.43million go on twitter every month just in USA!!!!!! 55% of users of apps on facebook are women!!!! 29.4million/80% of people have visited a social network website in the United Kingdom!!! 81million people have twitter that’s grown from just 2.7million in may 2009!!! 90%of 25-34 year olds have been on a social networking site every month!!!