Richard's Kingdom

I’ve deactivated my Facebook account. I was a late and reluctant convert to the network. I buckled to peer pressure because it had become the only way some of my relatives wanted to communicate. I had reached the point where the social benefits of membership outweighed the privacy risks. I won’t pretend I didn’t like [...]

Facebook caused a stir earlier this week by unilaterally changing their terms of service in a way lots of people didn’t like. On Wednesday they bowed to the pressure

The Guardian is reporting that pupils as young as 10 in Padstow, Cornwall, may have been posing as paedophiles online in order to bully their peers. “Police initially believed a local man was trying to groom the children by befriending them online and arranging to meet them.” The subsequent discovery that it was probably just [...]