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Pressure groups demand social media giant take action after the death of an Irish teenager was linked to the drinking game

The candles on Facebook's 10th birthday cake will barely have been blown out before someone somewhere starts speculating on whether it will ever make 11.

From September, computer coding will be taught in schools across England to children aged five and over. This trailblazing education policy could spark a skills revolution and help get to grips with on one of the biggest issues facing the developed world.

Ahead of Safer Internet Day on February 11, a report reveals that risky online behaviour is putting teenagers in danger of bullying and exploitation.

A room full of students with a tablet each and a teacher with an enthusiasm for social media is all that is required to engage developing minds.

The government is drawing up a list of sites inadvertently blocked by the filters it asked internet service providers (ISPs) to implement. Many sites on the list are run by charities that aim to educate children and others about health, sex education and drugs issues.

The UK needs “a clear legal framework” to tackle the problem of cyberbullying and the suicides of vulnerable young people such as Tallulah Wilson and Harriet Smith, the shadow minister for culture, media and sport said on Wednesday.

The number of people prosecuted for sending threatening messages online plunged by almost a third last year as campaigners fear hundreds of online abusers are going unpunished under softer prosecution guidelines.

Teachers should look through pupils’ mobile phones to delete sexual photos, a minister said yesterday. Norman Baker, a Home Office minister, said young people had to be taught about the risks of sending intimate photographs of themselves by text, email or instant messaging – a practice known as ‘sexting’.

You know their names. The "apps" that kids love to use and parents are warned to fear: Ask.fm, Vine, Kik and Snapchat make it to the top of the list for their reputations as harbingers of porn and cyberbullying.

The government should consider preventing young teenagers from owning smartphones if they have been caught using them to share sexualised images of minors, a Conservative MP has said.

Professionals helping child victims of sexual abuse are not keeping pace with technological advances, academics say. They warn that while perpetrators have become more ingenious in their use of technology to engage with vulnerable children, the training available to professionals has not kept up.

In the rush to blame websites for teenage suicides, we risk losing sight of the real causes of these deaths

Using iPads in the classroom with a curriculum that integrates IT and traditional subjects is helping pupils learn at one UK school

A new study of Facebook has predicted that the social network’s rapid growth will prove unsustainable and that the site will lose 80 per cent of its users between 2015 and 2017.

Michael Gove told the British Educational Training and Technology conference the government's decentralised approach to information and communications technology (ICT) provision is equipping young people with the skills necessary to succeed in the modern world.

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A story of intrigue and deception in a fictitious social network, Dixi will be available exclusively across mobile, tablet and desktop platforms from 24 February, with 30 webisodes scheduled across three weeks.

“123456” is finally getting some time in the spotlight as the world's worst password, after spending years in the shadow of “password.”

A charity has warned that online pornography and cyber-bullying are damaging the mental health of young people. A YoungMinds poll of 2,000 youngsters aged 11 to 25 revealed some startling findings about the state of mind of Britain's youth.