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One in 5 Children bullied online 
Almost one in five children who use social networking sites suffered a negative experience last year, research by children's charity the NSPCC shows....

The NSPCC also said a "large number" of users of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were under the minimum age of 13. A full report of the survey of 1,024 11 to 16-year-olds from across the UK will be published in November. The survey also showed that the most common bad experiences among children were bullying and trolling. This involves insulting or intimidating others, usually under a pseudonym, to provoke a reaction....


Earlier this month, 14-year-old Hannah Smith, from Leicestershire, was found hanged. Her father said she had been sent abusive messages on social networking site, ask.fm. Claire Lilley, NSPCC safer technology expert, said: "It's unbearable to think any young person should feel there is no other option but to end their life because of bullying on social networkin...

The short answer. Yes. I’ll keep it simple. What are the factors contributing to having more information = knowing less ? 1. The human tendency to pay attention to that which interests us instead of that which doesn’t fall within our sphere of interest. 2. The influx of youngsters into the informational world to get and provide information. 3. The tendency of younger minds to be appealed to that which is immediately gratifying, trivial, sensational, publicised, etc. The discomfort of contradiction can be shunned with a single click of a mouse, and one can bathe in the self-validating mires of similitude. You don’t get wiser this way, just equally dumb. The combination of 1 to 3 mean that people tend to form self-validating enclaves of similarly interested people. Basically, the more i can interact with people of similar interests, the less i’m going to bother about people of dissimilar interests. With the world wide web, people can immediately access similarly minded people. Th...