Facebook to install panic button
Published:Monday | July 12, 2010 | 5:50 PM
Social networking site, Facebook, has announced that it will allow a panic button.
The button will serve to report abuse against vulnerable children and teenagers and will be reported to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
Facebook initially resisted, but has since agreed and will join other sites such as Bebo and Myspace.
Facebook reportedly came under intense pressure, following the rape and murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall, by a 33-year-old convicted sex offender.
The offender posed as a teenage boy, whom Hall met on Facebook.
A letter was signed by 44 police chiefs in Wales, England and Scotland to support the protection call for the ClickCeop panic button on every Facebook page.