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Social-networking apps that eschew real names are gaining ground.

For just over a decade, Facebook has enforced the idea of an authentic online identity tied to each user of a social network. This might be fine for sharing news of a promotion or new baby with friends, but sometimes youd probably like to post a status update that wont go on your permanent record.

This urge might explain why millions of people, many of them under the age of 25, are flocking to a free smartphone app called Whisper, which lets you share thoughtsa few lines of text set against a background imagewithout adding your real name. Secret, a newer free app for the iPhone that shares posts anonymously through your existing social networks, is based on the same idea.

After years spent filling social networks like Facebook and Twitter with the minutiae of our lives, weve left permanent, heavily curated trails of personal data in our wakeover 1.2 billion of them on Facebook alone, judging by its user count. New apps allow us to continue being social without worrying about the repercussions of sharing the most personal confessions.

Facebook is more like the global social network; its like our communication layer to the world, says Anthony Rotolo, an assistant professor at Syracuse University, who studies social networks. Its no longer an outlet to share personal thoughts.

Whisper cofounder and CEO Michael Heyward believes his appand apps like the incredibly popular Snapchat, which lets you share self-destructing messages with friendsappeals because it taps into this increasing awareness of your digital footprint and the idea that everything you post online can be traced to you. He wont say exactly how many users Whisper has snagged since launching in 2012only that there are millions. But venture capital firms including Lightspeed Venture Partners have so far plowed $24 million into the startup, which is based in Santa Monica, California.

Users post whispers under a name of their choice, setting the text on top of an image taken with a phones camera or chosen from within the app. You can respond to others whispers with your own and privately send direct messages to other users. You can see the latest and most popular whispers, or search for a particular topic by keyword.

In the time I spent using it, I saw everything from Miss those days when my hardest decision was what Barbie to play with to 19 years old and Im about to start the process to adopt my baby brother.

Some Whispers were funny or silly, but many users do seem to use the app as a forum for raw honesty: there were plenty of posts like Im deployed to Afghanistan and nobody in my platoon knows Im bisexual. Im afraid it would ruin my ability to lead them and Im a dentist. People who disrespect my front desk staff are going to feel a little more pain than everybody else. While its impossible to tell whether posts are genuine, at least some people are presumably using the app to bare their souls.

Heyward says many people use the app to seek relationships and advice as well as to share secrets. I think people are really craving more authenticity and really want to feel more connected to people, he says.

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Feb 6 2014

More than half of children have used an online social network by the age of 10, according to a study.

Facebook tops the list of sites that children sign up to under-age, with 52% of eight to 16-year-olds admitting they had ignored the official age limit, the Social Age report for online safety advisory website Knowthenet found.

Other popular sites include WhatsApp, used by 40% of eight to 16-year-olds, BBM (24%), SnapChat (11%) and Ask.fm (8%).

The study found that although 59% of children are social networking by 10 years old, just 32% of parents feel "very confident" about helping them stay safe online.

The poll found 21% of children had posted negative comments, starting from an average age of 11, and 26% had "hijacked" another person's account and posted without permission.

Some 43% had messaged strangers, starting from an average age of 12.

The study suggests that children are most likely to post an image or video of themselves online or set up a fake profile for the first time at the age of 11, try Twitter and message a stranger at 12 and try services like SnapChat and Ask.fm at the age of 13.

Two thirds (67%) turn to their parents when they experience difficulties online, the poll found.

While 63% of parents check their child's internet activity at least once a week, more than a fifth (21%) are not confident they could install parental controls, and just under a half (46%) admit not being confident or aware of the school internet policy.

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NEW HOPE, Pa. -

Social networking site "MeetMe" bills itself as a place to meet friends, but now the Bucks County based company will meet the "city by the bay" in court.

San Francisco City Attorney David Herrera filed a lawsuit through his Consumer Protection Unit on behalf of the people of California, claiming the site illegally gives underage teens personal information and geographic location without valid consent.

"MeetMe has become a tool of choice for sexual predators to target underage victims, and the company's irresponsible privacy policies and practices are to blame for it," Herrera said in a statement.

Initially named MyYearbook, MeetMe started in 2005 and, according to the social networking site, 90 million members are logged on nationwide.

The site uses GPS to track users and give locations of other users nearby.

Children under 13 can't join and those over 18 aren't allowed to view minors' pictures and profiles.

But the suit alleges the site doesn't go far enough and allows potential predators and stalkers to view and scroll through profiles of children.

The lawsuit claims dozens of minors nationwide have been the victims of sex crimes by predators who relied on MeetMe to find their targets.

MeetMe management were not at their New Hope office, but company CEO Geoff Cook did issue a statement.

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