They first connected through the social media site, Bebo, and 14 years later Susan Buckley and Danny McCarthy tied the knot.

On a recent episode of one of my favourite podcasts, the High Low, the journalists Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes discussed the increasing popularity of sending voice notes on WhatsApp.

Parents need to have “full and frank” discussions with their children about what they are posting online and need to make sure privacy settings are activated to control who views their information, an expert in online security has warned.

Facebook has updated its controls for the News Feed, allowing users to dictate who they’d like to see stories from first.

Social networking site Bebo has been resurrected — and it’s brought people’s embarrassing, mid-2000s photos back from the digital graveyard along with it.

LAST month, a 28-year-old father of two from Pennsylvania posted a photo on the social media network Reddit entitled “Just being a Dad”.

All your old Bebo photos are coming back from the digital grave.

The crucial role of everything from lip gloss to Twitter, and customer relationship management software in making sales was covered at the Cork Chamber annual conference.

Talk about addressing the elephant in the room.

The British couple who sold social networking site Bebo for $850m five years ago have bought back the company for just $1m and say they will relaunch it.

The social networking site Bebo has been sold back to the man who founded it.

A sex offender who posed as a casting agent for TV programmes on the social networking site Bebo and set up an ‘audition’ for a 16-year-old boy who he then sexually assaulted, has been jailed for four-and-a-half years at Trim Circuit Court.

A man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on a social network site, after he claimed to be 19, has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail.

A 25 year old Dublin man has been jailed for two years for having sex with a 13-year-old girl that he befriended on social networking site, Bebo.

A man is to be sentenced today for having sex with a 13-year-old girl that he befriended on the social networking site, Bebo.

Ill-judged comments on Twitter and Facebook may cost your job.

He doesn’t turn 25 until next October and already has three All Stars to his name but Joe Canning still knows how to do self-deprecation.

A man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl he met on Bebo after he claimed to be 19-years-old will be sentenced next month.

WHEN Kildare woman Joan (not her real name) investigated her daughter’s online activity, she was shocked.

This year’s Dublin Web Summit climaxes this evening, with one enterprise winning the Electric Ireland Spark of Genius Start-Up Competition.

A clinical psychologist has said he is satisfied that a man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl he met through Bebo does not have paedophilic tendencies.

A man has been remanded in custody ahead of his sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl that he befriended on a social networking site.

A man who had sex with a 13-year-old girl after befriending her on a social networking site has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

Ireland has a growing number of ‘silver surfers’ as figures show almost one in five people over the age of 65 now have a Facebook account.

Calls are being made for children to be taught how to stay safe online in primary schools.

A man who appeared in court yesterday charged with 21 counts of sexual assault on a girl has been ordered not to contact the alleged victim — including contact through social media websites Facebook and Bebo.

TECHNOLOGY firm Datahug has secured €1 million investment funding as the massively successful Dublin Web Summit draws to a close.

THE owner of the main bar at the centre of the so-called ‘CIT Christmas Day’ declared yesterday that his premises would no longer have anything to do with the event.

THREE out of four Irish students use social network site Facebook as their main online communicating channel, with just 6% preferring to use email.

JOHN MULLANE was forced to contact the Gardaí about fake social media accounts claiming to be him.

ONLY two social networking sites protect the privacy of minors by default, an EU study has shown.

CHILDREN as young as seven are being bullied on social networking sites and mobile phones, an expert warned yesterday.

DESPITE Irish parents being among the strictest in the EU in supervising their children’s use of the internet, 10% of 11 to 16-year-olds received sexual messages online but less than a quarter of their parents knew about it.

PARENTS need to “open their eyes” to how their young children are being targeted by junk food advertisers throughout the day, according to an international food policy expert.

The house where a convicted sex offender started an inferno which killed his partner and five children in the North has been demolished.

A teenager who attacked and injured a man in revenge for remarks made on the Bebo website, was spared a custodial sentence today.

GIVING your child free reign on the internet is the same as letting them loose on a busy street or shopping centre, according to the Government’s sexual and domestic violence agency.

A MAN who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy less than half his age on the day he met him on a Bebo chatroom has been jailed for 18 months.

IRISH children are among the safest in Europe in their internet behaviour but almost one-in-10 has seen sexual images online.

BRITAIN’S worst internet child sex abuser was jailed for eight-and-a-half years yesterday.

A paedophile postman who used Facebook and Bebo to groom hundreds of children for sex in the UK was jailed for eight-and-a-half years today.

A MOTORCYCLE parts dealer has settled a High Court action against social networking site Bebo for allegedly allowing his name to be used on a website to post defamatory comments about a biking champion killed in a racing accident.

FACEBOOK has joined forces with a British child protection agency to create a “panic button” application on its site, it was announced yesterday, as the social networking giant finally gave in to calls to do more to protect youngsters online.

AOL is paring back its ambitions in the world of online social networking, selling the Bebo website that it bought two years ago for $850m (€687.3m).

THE explosion in social networking technology has thrown up many anxieties for parents fearful of who is trying to interact with their child and what images are being thrust before them.

JUST days after it was forced to tighten its privacy settings, social networking site Facebook is to do a U-turn on its policy of not having “panic buttons” on its web pages.

SCHOOLS need to constantly update their own behaviour rules to discourage and punish bullying, but are wary of over-regulation by Government on the issue, a second-level schools organisation said.

Online social network Bebo was facing an uncertain future today after its parent firm revealed plans to sell or shut down the site just two years after buying it for $850m (€635m).

Struggling internet company AOL plans to sell or shut down social website Bebo, which it bought for $850m (€634m) nearly two years ago.

A WORLD expert on internet security will help a college promote positive mental health as part of a week-long initiative which begins today.