A total of 1,544 UK 16-24s were recently surveyed and able to say whether they like, love, dislike or hate Snapchat – or whether they have no feeling towards the app.
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12 Jun 2014
New research from AVG Technologies indicates technology is accelerating the end of childhood innocence by making parents discuss awkward adult topics sooner
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Market Watch
12 Jun 2014
The stereotype of the Twitter troll is of a sexually aggressive male, so when Natasha Devon found herself a victim of manipulative female trolls, she was completely unprepared
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The Telegraph
11 Jun 2014
The Well Versed project has finished and the result is an esafety film created by teenagers who love, live and breathe the internet.
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UK Safer Internet Centre
11 Jun 2014
Post-exam discussions about what answers you gave have been replaced by social media frenzies, writes a student blogger
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The Guardian
11 Jun 2014
Video games are getting scarier - much scarier. Is a line about to be crossed?
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BBC
11 Jun 2014
Facebook has revealed a new photo-messaging app after accidentally releasing it on Apple's app store.
Known as Slingshot, the app's features include sharing photos and videos with friends and sending "reaction shots".
Like Snapchat, all images are deleted once sent and users can scribble or type over their photos.
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BBC
10 Jun 2014
A disturbing internet creation is being blamed for a series of near fatal stabbings - carried out by children.
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Huffington Post
10 Jun 2014
'Every time I criticised her, she would post screenshots and get more support which would make me even angrier'
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The Guardian
10 Jun 2014
A stand-in teacher has been banned from the classroom for sending sexually explicit Facebook messages to a pupil after prom night.
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Manchester Evening News
10 Jun 2014
The most bizarre aspect of the case by far, though, is the involvement of Slender Man, an internet phenomenon that's sent journalists around the world scrambling for their Google machines with predictably miserable results.
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vice.com
05 Jun 2014
The US Secret Service is seeking a Twitter sarcasm detector.
The agency has put out a work tender looking for a software system to analyse social media data.
The software should have, among other things, the "ability to detect sarcasm and false positives".
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BBC
05 Jun 2014
Cyberbullying Triples According to New McAfee "2014 Teens and the Screen Study"
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Wall Street Journal
03 Jun 2014
The company has designs for a system that allows children younger than 13 to be supervised by parents, according to a new patent
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The Guardian
03 Jun 2014
The National Crime Agency (NCA) is urging members of the public to protect themselves against powerful malicious software (malware), which may be costing UK computer users millions of pounds.
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CERT-UK
03 Jun 2014
Childnet today launched the STAR Toolkit, a new online safety resource that offers practical advice and teaching activities to help secondary schools explore internet safety with young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).
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UK Safer Internet Centre
03 Jun 2014
The co-founder of Instagram has told Newsbeat that the app's rules on nudity are "fair".
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BBC
03 Jun 2014
Google has launched a service to allow Europeans to ask for personal data to be removed from online search results.
The move comes after a landmark European Union court ruling earlier this month, which gave people the "right to be forgotten".
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BBC
30 May 2014
Ask.fm has told Newsbeat it understands anonymity can cause "problems and issues" for users.
It also defended allowing people to hide their identity.
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Radio 1
29 May 2014
Almost 2,000 children in the UK have been investigated for social media abuse, offensive Twitter messages and online bullying since 2011, it has been revealed.
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BBC
29 May 2014