{"id":632,"date":"2008-04-30T21:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T20:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=632"},"modified":"2008-04-30T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T20:52:00","slug":"young-bebo-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/young-bebo-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Bebo users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jozecuervo\/250853787\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/80\/250853787_f3501bc223_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jozecuervo\/250853787\/\">bebo<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/jozecuervo\/\">jozecuervo<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>Although I&#8217;ve got an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebo.com\/viralbus\">account on Bebo<\/a>, I feel like some kind of nearly extinct species there, since most users seem to be between 10 and 12 years old.<\/p>\n<p>As an MP <a href=\"http:\/\/ukpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hTT8NhBod_QtqdHkP7nff8fwPhNQ\">said today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;My daughter is 12 and she has been on Bebo for at least 18 months and I think every single one of her friends is and spends hours on it. It is universal, way below 13.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The odd thing is that Bebo officially requires all users to be at least 14, but as far as I can gauge, 14 is the age when youngsters feel too old for Bebo and move to other social networking sites.<\/p>\n<p>Funnily enough, the kids these days clearly know a lot about the dangers of the Internet, so many of them write they&#8217;re married so that they don&#8217;t attract sexual predators, but it&#8217;s normally clear from their profile photos how old they really are.<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bebo Originally uploaded by jozecuervo Although I&#8217;ve got an account on Bebo, I feel like some kind of nearly extinct species there, since most users seem to be between 10 and 12 years old. As an MP said today: &#8220;My daughter is 12 and she has been on Bebo for at least 18 months and I think every single one of her friends is and spends hours on it. It is universal, way below 13.&#8221; The odd thing is that Bebo officially requires all users to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,115,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-kids","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}