Been Talking to a few youth workers and social workers today at work and they are deleting there facebook membership.
They were saying you could be talking to an old school pal you have not seen for 20 years and they could be involved in any dodgy stuff you no nothing about but you could end up being implicated by having them as a friend on facebook.

Scary when you think about it.

i surrpose if you have nowt to hide you have nothing to worry about,i found facebook a good way too keep in touch with old school pals and family...and cheaper too chat too people while you are on holiday than too ring them ha.

Thats what i said but they said mud sticks and once you have been linked with it people always think the worse.

Nah!
Almost everyone is on facebook these days.
Okay, if one of your facebook friends is arrested then the police might check through your messages, posts etc but if none of yours are dodgy then nothing will be done about it. If everything you type down is recorded somewhere then the police would have to check through lots of banal shite and will only be interested if something suggest compliance with certain crimes
They're being too paranoid in my opinion, after this horrible malarky with the nursery worker, though I suppose its their right.

It's very dangerous Kev.

Can't say its too much of a problem.

I'm a social work student at Teesside Uni and they encourage the use of Facebook as it can be synchronised with Blackboard so it is easier for the course tutors to keep you updated (students use Facebook far more than the Uni Blackboard site). They also use it for different groups to easily communicate with their members (sports groups, asian groups etc)

If it was a major issue, they wouldn't promote it so readily.

So what happens if you sent a text to the wrong number is that not the same if they get into bother but have your text on there phone!!!

Have you tried reading a book/magazine/Beano by way of an introduction to the English language.

Paranoia to the extreme here MOD, if someone commits an offence they're hardly like to do anything to the 300 people they're friends with on Facebook too.

Just because three freaks got together by using facebook its reason enough to delete your account...

What next everyone cancelling their internet subscriptions because 99.99% of all pædos use it?

Snowy and ripper still communicate with smoke signals and carrier pigeons!

Hey, I've got one of those Facebox accounts. I actually logged onto it at the weekend for the first time in about three months! Do you wanna be my friend?

Your already on my friends list ripper.

I'm gunna get done for fraud and cos your on my friends list im taking you down with me.

Are us whites allowed to join it or do we have to form a whites group that would be labelled racist?

Why don't you join up and try?

There point was you are a friend of a dodgepot on there they get caught and you are linked to them.
the police if you work with young or vunrable young people go to your employer and say this person knows mr dodgepot they suspend you while invetergating and then its all over the town and you know you are guilty till proved innocent life ruined.

The chances of that happening are virtually slim to none mouldy.

Like Ric says though it's peoples right if they wanna delete it to do that but i think it's slightly over paranoid.

Oh aye, come on in, it's gloriously innocent.