Monday, July 14, 2008

The perils of taking Bebo at face value

A story that warns of taking social networking sites at face value.

The Independent reports that a mother is taking six national newspapers to court after sh claims they carried false reports about her daughters teenage party.

The paper reports that

It read like the teenage party from hell: a riot of sex and wanton damage fuelled by under-age drinking that only ended when the police arrived. According to media reports, the mother of the teenage hostess was so angry with her daughter that she punched her.
But Jodie Hudson's lurid description of the party on the social networking website Bebo, subsequently carried in a number of national newspapers, turned out to be fantasy. The media stories, and the accompanying pictures taken from Bebo, are now the subject of a landmark legal case that could redraw the boundaries of the use of information published on social networking sites including Bebo, Facebook and MySpace.

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