Social networking site bebo has responded to concerns that gangs are using social networking sites to publicise their violence by attempting to connect young users with youth groups and charities. The move is intended to increase access to support services for young people, and undoubtedly to try to improve perceptions of social networking as an agent for good rather than negative activity.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/therersquos-nothing-social-about-posing-with-knives-and-axes-1773071.html
It has been claimed that online gang activity is rife, with users posting photos of themselves posing with weapons and littering their profiles with references to crime. Increasingly now this is moving underground as profiles are set to private. On the flip side of this, young people have been using social networking sites to pay homage to friends killed as a result of knife and gun crime, posting poems and other tributes to the dead (see previous posts).
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