Ofcom's Research into Social Networking

Tanya Byron last week Ofcom this week. Their report (in full here) today about the proliferation of social networking sites (read the BBC's interpretation here) and widespread access stresses the safety aspects over and above the positives concerning the building of wider networks and a new digital definition of 'friend'. Interestingly, the BBC report does not make any connection between what Ofcom says and what the Byron Review suggests.

So are you an alpha socialiser, an attention seeker, a follower, a fathful, a functional or a none user? You can see which social category of 'networker' you fit into here.