Mostly set up with social networking sites such as Facebook and twitter, and also messaging services such as blackberry, the riots caused havoc in and around the UK.
Because blackberry messenger is encrypted, it was hard for the police to find out when the next riots would be, their only other sources were facebook, twitter and of course, word of mouth. Blackberry users, who were involved in the riots and took this to their advantage. Numerous broadcast went around stating where and when the next riots will take place and also influencing people to be apart of it.
Police took advantage over facebook and twitter, and what evidence they found , they dealt with seriously. In the later stages on the riots, authority contacted blackberry to temporarily disable blackberry messenger, which didn't happen.
Numerous pictures of the riots floated around bbm;
The government could not believe how quick the riots spread and how much damage was caused and blamed networking , networking via computers and phones have matured incredibly over time and It's causing trouble in society as such things can be organised in such big groups without networking of our time I don't believe the riots would of been set up as well as if did, if riots would of even happened at all without it, police were out numbered and the government was not ready.
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