Piczo asks for teens' help with Piczo Insiders : Tech Digest

Fed up with Facebook? Miffed with Myspace? Bored of Bebo? Yep, join the club. If I get poked by one more unattractive man on the former, I may just be forced to delete my account. Attractive men, on the other hand...

Good news for British teens who are also irritated with these sites and the plethora of others popping up around them like daisies through concrete, as Piczo, a social networking rival which is slowly but surely storming through the intertubes with 8 million monthly users in Europe alone, has just unleashed Piczo Inspires. This "teen insight and influencer group" enables old fuddy-duddy marketers, researchers and academics to find out just what makes teens tick, and whether they really like that Umbrella song by Rihanna. Probably.

The Insiders have already helped create some of the commercial content for the on-going NSPCC campaign, 'Don't Hide It', and apparently have plenty more projects up their Topshop-clad sleeves.

So, an initiative to take advantage of teens' free labour and ideas, or an opportunity for them to influence products and services aimed at them which will in turn benefit them more so? Only time will tell, but judging by the positive reaction already on the social networking service, it's bound to be a hit. Let's just wait and see how long it takes before they start charging for their input, cheeky kids.

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