Comments on: How dangerous is Facebook? http://www.thepaepae.com/how-dangerous-is-facebook/2736/ A Platform for Dialogue Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Peter http://www.thepaepae.com/how-dangerous-is-facebook/2736/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Peter Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:15:31 +0000 http://www.thepaepae.com/?p=2736#comment-373 A panic button on Facebook? <blockquote>Social networking platform Facebook says it is considering installing a "panic button" on its British website after government pressure. A British child protection group and the government have been lobbying Facebook and other networking sites to install a one-click button that would allow children to report abuse and potentially get police help if they suspect they're at risk. Calls for the button intensified following the kidnap, rape and murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall.</blockquote> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10633568 Weeelll.... something has to change. A panic button on Facebook?

Social networking platform Facebook says it is considering installing a “panic button” on its British website after government pressure.

A British child protection group and the government have been lobbying Facebook and other networking sites to install a one-click button that would allow children to report abuse and potentially get police help if they suspect they’re at risk.

Calls for the button intensified following the kidnap, rape and murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10633568

Weeelll…. something has to change.

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