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Facebook 'encourages to children to spread gossip and insults'

Facebook 'encourages to children to spread gossip and insults'

Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are undermining children's moral development by
rewarding the use of "inneuendo, half-truth and insult", according to a
leading headmaster.

Graeme Paton
London Telegraph
Oct 16, 2010

Facebook, Twitter and Bebo are undermining children's moral development by
rewarding the use of "inneuendo, half-truth and insult", according to a
leading headmaster.

Social networking websites pose a serious threat as they blur the lines
between gossip and fact before schoolchildren learn to appreciate the
difference, it was claimed.

John Newton, head of fee-paying Taunton School, Somerset, said that on-line
chat rooms and information sharing sites could help young people learn from
peers around the world.

But he said pupils needed firm guidance from adults with "authority, balance
and a firm grasp of facts and context" to avoid being led astray.

"A little knowledge is dangerous thing," he said.

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Facebook 'encourages to children to spread gossip and insults'