D. JonesWhat The F**k Is Wrong With Facebook?
April 15th 2010 08:01
There are some very disturbing things happening on Facebook! I personally, do not have an account. The only account I ever had, was a Twitter account once, but I didn't like it, I call it Nitwitter (for "nitwits") because people use it for stupid crap ("Um, yeah, I'm sitting on my couch, eating a bag of Cheetos, in my underwear!" And I CARE, why?) Anyway, I digress, check out the following videos (about a minute in length each) then read the possible solution to all of this mayhem! (And the stories about the mom and the one about the woman who got "poked" are just unbelievable!)
Facebook has launched a revamped internal site designed to help people stay safe and report threats while on the popular online hangout Facebook's "Safety Center," which features new tools for parents, teachers, teens and law enforcement, is the first major endeavor from the social networking site and its four-month-old global safety advisory board. (Whew! I'm glad SOMEONE is on top of this s**t!) The company unveiled its Safety Center a day after meeting with child advocacy officials in the U.K., who had been pushing the company to install a so-called "panic button" on the site for some time, following the kidnapping and murder there, of a teenager by a man she encountered on Facebook (And it took an overseas group to initiate this...that's sad America!)
Britain's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center, or CEOP, had wanted Facebook to install a prominent link on U.K. users' profile pages that would take them to CEOP's own safety site designed to help children deal with online threats. In a statement Tuesday, the center called Facebook's move "long overdue," and "nothing more than we would expect from any responsible social network provider." (True!) But it added that "critical issues remain unresolved" since Facebook did not actually install a "panic button." (Actions speak louder than words!)
"We believe that without the deterrence provided by direct visible access to the CEOP button on each and every page children will not be appropriately empowered, parents cannot be reassured and the offender will not be deterred," the center said on its Web site. (What do they think the "panic button" is.... a superhero?) Facebook's board is composed of Internet safety groups Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and The Family Online Safety Institute (And we are doing WHAT, exactly?) Some new features of the safety center include more content on staying safe, such as dealing with bullying online, an interactive portal and a simpler design (Cyber-bullying has gotten way outta hand! And it's NOT the responsibility of these social sites to monitor our children!)
The presence of sexual predators is a problem for social networking sites and their users. Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif., has helped identify, and has disabled accounts of, registered sex offenders (Good!) In 2008, Facebook said it agreed to assist 49 Attorneys General to protect kids against Internet predators (Since 2008? Is this is working, how?)
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