Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

<tr><td colspan="3"><div class="mxb"><div class="sh"> With Friends Like These </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="416"> <font size="2"> <!-- S BO --> <!-- S IIMA --> <table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="203"> <tbody><tr><td> <div> <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44222000/jpg/_44222124_facebook_203.jpg" alt="webpage from facebook site" border="0" height="152" hspace="0" vspace="0" width="203"> <div class="cap">Are we revealing too much information about ourselves?</div> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <!-- E IIMA --> <b> BBC Radio 4's Analysis: With Friends Like These will be broadcast on Thursday, 8 November 2007 at 20:30 and repeated on Sunday 11 November at 21.30 GMT</b> </font><p> </p><p> <font size="2"> <!-- S ILIN --> </font></p><div class="arr"> <font size="2"> <a class="bodl" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/analysis/transcripts/08_11_07.txt">Read the programme transcript</a> </font></div> <font size="2"> <!-- E ILIN --> </font><p> </p><p> <font size="2">The Internet is now the centre of many peoples' lives. </font></p><p> <font size="2">It's a place where they work, play, and socialise. </font></p><p> <font size="2">Many of the internet's most popular sites are claiming more and more of our time. </font></p><p> <font size="2">Social Networks are especially popular with the young, for whom membership of Facebook or MySpace is almost mandatory. </font></p><p> <font size="2">But for these sites to work, they require the users to reveal large amounts of information about themselves, and their friends. </font></p><p> <font size="2">And for the first time ever, our youthful indiscretions, our interests, and our thoughts, are public and searchable, and will be around, perhaps, for ever.</font></p></td></tr>