A Moblog is a weblog created via mobile phone or personal digital assistant (PDA), rather than a computer. A moblog typically features photographs of the author's travels or daily life, and brief text commentary.

Moblogs are a lot of fun and moblogging sites have been appearing all over the Internet. Indeed some handset manufacturers have also been created moblogging spaces for people.

These sites offer wonderful opportunities to share pictures with people when, for example, you are on holiday and you want to share your experiences in near real-time with you friends and family. Social networking products help to keep us connected in ways that would have been difficult for most people to envisage 20 years ago.

A quick audit of moblogging sites shows that young people are very keen to use these services and to post their pictures on the Internet. To date, the implications of children and young people posting personal information onto moblogging sites has not been examined very carefully.

It seems reasonable to suggest that a child or young person who posts personal information may be at greater risk of exploitation. In particular, photographs and contact details or information about routine daily behaviour such as after school sports activities could pose a problem.

Currently, moblogging sites offer very little information in the form of safety guidelines or information about how to report abuse. This is one of the issues that will be explored at the conference to be held on Safer Internet Day in London.