Here’s a story we found via NPR, about the making the Facebook experience safer for young people:
The head of Britain’s online child protection agency met with Facebook executives Monday in Washington to try to convince them to embed his agency’s “panic button” on the site’s pages, so children can report any disturbing contacts with a single click.
Several other social networking sites, including Bebo, have installed the button, but Facebook says it already has a “robust” monitoring system.
The meeting follows controversy over the way Facebook handles abuse reporting, which arose during the trial of a serial sex offender. Last month, a British judge sentenced Peter Chapman to 35 years in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall. But at times, it seemed like Facebook was on trial.
Read the rest of the story on the NPR Website.
