Currently, the role of social media is discussed in the UK media in General and in particular the new BlackBerry service (BBM) in the riots in England. Networks that now called on social participation, to do so without consequences – police posts in rampant on the Internet and locates their authors to make them accountable. Investigators are ultimately not have much success, because Twitter and Facebook have played these last days more a marginal role. Twitter is even rather used by the other side, the air is made mostly deleted lack of understanding on the riots on the Tweets.

BlackBerry (image: PA) is based on the monitoring and the Messenger service has been used increasingly by BlackBerry hooligans English, because this service chat, for the benefit of the rioters, is encrypted and can therefore be checked by the police. The influence of the Messenger service goes even so far that a federal deputies requested the complete switch-off. Through the decision of the function can be avoided, that can be called other disorders. This explains the MP David Lammy on Twitter and BBC Radio Tuesday. His constituency is North of London, in the area of problem of Tottenham, where was born at the end of week, acts of violence.

For private customers, the BlackBerry, the press service of BBM surveys via the server of RIM the Canadian manufacturer of BlackBerry is running. The data sent is encrypted it guaranteed. If the authorities intervene, but data must however be published. According to a spokesman for the BlackBerry, the company complies with the laws in force in this area and will cooperate with the authorities in the case of the case.

The Messenger service is used, unlike the call for the destruction of organizing clean-up operations. On Tuesday, actions were organised in London in particular on social networks, he had hundreds of volunteers engaged in a very short time. Eliminate you voluntarily that has devastated the young rioters and looters. The account Twitter “@ riotcleanup” are the places and the occasions of the agreed and planned actions. It is also the purpose of the page “post riot clean-up: Let’s help London” on Facebook, which has almost 19,000 fans at this time.