Monday nights programming on terrestrial TV was diabolical at best. But whoever was responsible for this needs a brick shoved up there arse.

Panorama: One Click From Danger was broadcast much to the dismay of most of the internets younger users. The aim was to make parents more aware of the threats that there kids face on the internet. The reality was mindless scaremongering and lies.
For starters, Panorama seemed to promote the stereotype that young people are naive and stupid on the internet. It told parents to monitor kids online activities and move the computer. What made me laugh the most was the opening line by Jeremy Vine. "Is your child in his or her bedroom right now, on their computer? If so, this is the programme for you!". To be honest, the whole programme was perfectly lollable. They were training aging parents how the internet works, and they taught the parents what "asl" and "pos" meant. That was funny in itself.
They also decided to create decoy accounts under the name of Jane Brown on Myspace, Facebook and Bebo in an attempt to see how many paedophiles tried to make contact. All fair enough, apart from the fact that the person behind the Jane Brown alias obviously didn't have a clue about teenagers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7174814.stm
That should show you what I mean. 14 year old girls are really not that frightened by the prospect of sex.
Panorama, basically mislead the public, the facts and figures they used were all grossly exaggerated and manipulative. It was a full on "Parents, save your children" propaganda punch.  The interviews were all biased, they only interviewed people who had somehow gotten into some sort of problem on the net. They didn't bother with the majority. For instance, I've met people from thei nternet at least 15 times. The thing is, we have enough common sense to meet as a group in a public place (as I've mentioned before in this blog). That's all it takes, common sense.
The comments page was overflowing with comments from angry teenagers (a lot of whom, I know) and naive parents.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7176709.stm

I also posted a rant on the BBC parenting message board, which pretty much sums up my feelings and argument against such programming. Here it is:

http://seanywonders.blogspot.com/2008/01/panorama-paedorama.html

So, any parents reading this, please do take these points into consideration if you intend on doing such things to your teenagers. Any comments welcome, I'll answer as soon as I can.