London Riots and Social Media

Article
http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/home/2011/08/london-riots-and-social-media.html 

Quotes

1) "BBM has been acknowledged as the network of choice for the rioters to communicate with each other due to its level of privacy from police surveillance."
- As a significant amount of teenagers have a Blackberry this resorted to them being able to message others so that they could join in to riot.

2) "Twitter and Face book and other public web outlets have been attributed to a number of social movements in the last several months"
- Society is recognising that social media is playing a almost destructive role in today's community.

3) " With nearly 40% of London’s teens choosing Blackberry as their smart phone of choice, this creates a potentially huge audience for encouraging further violence."
- The use of BBM etc is almost glamorising the riots that occurred and created this "hype" within the youth society.