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Facebook pressured for 'panic button'
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BRITISH officials say they're pressuring Facebook to make a "panic button" available on its web pages following the death of a teenager at the hands of a man she met on the popular social networking site.
British child protection authorities have been lobbying Facebook and other social networking sites to install a one-click button that can allow children to get immediate police help if they suspect they're at risk.
Calls for Facebook to install the button intensified following the kidnap, rape and murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall. Her killer, Peter Chapman, used a bogus Facebook identity to befriend her online.
Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of Britain's governing Labour Party, said on Thursday ministers were lobbying Facebook to adopt the button.
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Posted by Yvonne from Rosewood, Queensland
15 March 2010 9:09 a.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
Teens today don't have a realistic perspective of the internet. My step daughter posted naked photo's of herself to several males she had met online, she believed that no one else would ever see the pictures. She also makes comments about blowing up her school on her facebook page. I have explained to her that the world wide web is just that, the WORLD WIDE WEB and that anyone can see what she writes. Having a panic button with responsible adults availabe to help would only work for those who see that they are at risk. Not sure how we get through to teens who know it all!