Shocking Advert Too Much For People to Bear

BBC News reports that a television advert for the charity Barnardos has received over 477 complaints.

Viewers - including some child abuse victims - had complained its repeated scenes of a young girl being hit and later taking drugs were distressing.

Thankfully the Advertising Standards Authority have backed the advert stating that "the scene involving the violence, although shocking to watch, showed the violence as unacceptable behaviour and did not encourage or condone it." The report went on to say "We concluded that the aim of the ads justified the use of such strong imagery".

It begs the question; if 477+ people felt that strongly about it why not do something more constructive like supporting Barnardos (or the NSPCC) rather than complaining.

Read the full BBC News Online article.

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Blog It

I'm trying out the new Facebook application, Blog It which allows Facebook users to post to their blog from within the social networking site itself. It also provides Facebook status and mini-feed integration.

It can post to various blogs including Wordpress, Blogger and Moveable Type. It can even update your Twitter status.

This is my first post let's see how it goes...

Edit: Well it worked. This post was actually created in Facebook albeit edited in Wordpress

All in all a very nifty little application very handy in this social media age.

If you have a Facebook account you can install Blog It here

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