Bebo does Prime Time.
It really was inevitable wasn’t it? With no political scandals as of late it was typical of Miriam and co. to latch onto the latest phenomenon and produce a scaremongering report into the social-networking site Bebo.
In it’s attempt to produce an expert and indepth report the program starts off with the story of a 16 year old in Dublin who posted an image of someone hanging themselves on his Bebo profile. This same 16 year old then commited suicide a few days later. Fingers were pointed at Bebo.com. I can’t understand why though. Is it because his parents didn’t want to admit that they did a terrible job of bringing their son up or his “friends” didn’t want to admit that bullying him over the years may have had an impact on him? Maybe it’s both! But that’s no reason for Bebo to take the hit on it. In fact, if I saw my friend posting up pictures of someone hanging themselves on Bebo it would set off warning bells in my head and I’d strive to help that friend because obviously their screwed up in the head.
A Ken O’Shea then went “around Dublin” speaking to users of Bebo. Hardly “around Dublin” though when you listen to the deplorable D4 accents! So apparently the views given by 3 Dublin teenagers (living in D4) are the views and opinions of everyone else in Dublin? Yeah. Whatever.
After that wonderful insight into Bebo provided by those esteemed students, Miriam invites Ken to show everyone the site that he has been looking at for the past 2 days! Yes, two days and all of a sudden he’s in the position to offer an expert’s view on the workings of Bebo. It’s obvious that all he did was search for the most offensive images and cases to present Bebo in the worst light possible. Not one advantage of Bebo is mentioned at all. Probably because he doesn’t know there are such advantages having only used the site for 2 days with the sole aim of finding offensive material!
I know that I have been a critic of Bebo in the past but that was because I had the right to be one as there were very clear and present dangers. However they improved their policies and now I don’t see any dangers to responsible users. If your son or daughter isn’t responsible then don’t leave them near the site because clearly after seeing this Prime Time report they’ll end up becoming hard-core drug users, posting pornography before comitting suicide.
Everytime Michael Birch began to make a good point, Miriam interjected and slowed his momemtum because after all, it wouldn’t be right if the one person who had a clue what he was talking about was able to make a fair point. Prime Time, fuck off scaremongering.
If you missed the prime time report then you can watch it here (opens in a new window, RealPlayer required)
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