Online interventions can change online behaviour

One of our suggestions in the Youth Work and Social Networking research was that youth workers who find young people to have risky or 'unsuitable' information on their Social Network Site profiles, or finding profiles where the privacy settings have not been set carefully, should raise that with young people - possibly by a message on the Social Network Site itself.

Research from a US Study shows that this sort of intervention can lead to young people changing the information on their profiles.