Teen-distributed child porn
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) say classmates distribute child-pornography. a group of male students had been sharing pornographic images of themselves and encouraging female classmates to do the same. "According to investigators, some girls were peer-pressured into taking inappropriate images of themselves and sending them to the boys. If you think this may be happening contact NCMEC (800.843.5678).

Missouri cyberbullying: Case not closed
1) Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles are looking at charging the adult neighbor who created the imposter profile that led to the Missouri teen's suicide.
2) Online vigilantism, Wanting to avenge Megan's death,  heated messages demanding they be held accountable. What lawmakers couldn't or wouldn't do, virtual vigilantes did  "The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and
Privacy on the Internet" about virtual mobs and online shaming.

Imposter profiles: Continuing problem?
Report imposters: imposterreport@myspace.com. CIO magazine says imposter profiles aren't going away. Check a profile's authenticity, with a free service claimID.

The Spin "Net users are becoming their own reputation managers," of info shared in social-networking profiles and blogs. Children's brains are still in development
teenage-brain-a-work-in-progress  Spin "control" is becoming, if not a survival skill, essential reputation protection.

Oz to filter Web content nationwide
The Australian government is about to implement a nationwide Internet filtering program go into affect January 20 to check that young people of the correct age are accessing content designated for that age. The US-based tech policy blog doesn't like this cause it won't work but cause other problems. The Australian IT published an editorial saying the government's anti-porn plan needs revamping

Socializing online, on phones in Japan
The number of mobile users accessing Mixi's browser-based mobile system outweighed the number of visitors who have PCs and the phone socializers are younger than the computer-based ones. "

UK's top social sites
The highest mark - 79% - went to Bebo, "used predominantly by the 13-to-24-year-old age group ... for "working hard to encourage responsible networking." Next in line, respectively, were Facebook (74%), MySpace (67%), Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces (65%), and Friends Reunited (62%). "Saga Zone - aimed at the over-50s - and BBC Talk were both given a maximum five-star rating for their performance" and discussion groups, The Guardian adds, and "Flickr proved to be the best in the special-interest category, scoring five out of five for both performance and ease of use."