Social Sites Protect Children

GUARDIAN.CO.UK -- Apr 2 -- Social networks are taking their duty to protect younger users more seriously, according to Bebo's safety officer. The website, recently bought by AOL for $850m, has also launched safesocialnetworking.com as a resource for teachers, and placed an emphasis on basic functionality such as setting all profiles to private by default and warning under-21s if they try to make their profiles publicly searchable. FULL ARTICLE @ GUARDIAN.CO.UK