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    News - Facebook reaches compromise on safety ‘panic button’

    The social networking site succumbs to the pressure, but on its own terms.
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    Re: News - Facebook reaches compromise on safety ‘panic button’

    It is a live chat thing? I can see it getting abused, asking the person on the other end absurd things to amusement, typically with friends. Much like the many prank calls that happened back in college during lunch or frees when we found a yellow pages

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    Re: News - Facebook reaches compromise on safety ‘panic button’

    I dont see how an app is going to help in any way...
    To be honest I'm not sure theres much facebook can actually do other than token actions like adding this app. Its really up to the parents to ensure their kids dont go out and meet strangers they met online

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    Re: News - Facebook reaches compromise on safety ‘panic button’

    yet another instance of the world going mad....

    Whatever happened to PARENTING a child. You know, that bit where parents watch their children grow up, and keep them in touch. Corporate responsibility can never replace parenting, and all this is doing is further teaching children that they don't need their parents and that the world is a big happy safe place.

    Next thing, they'll have schools teaching kids how to spot a paedo. All very well, but shouldn't parents be doing that, and sending the kids to school to learn things that parents can't teach.

    Soon the world will end up with "Little Johnny, as sponsored by...."


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    Re: News - Facebook reaches compromise on safety ‘panic button’

    It's ridiculous..a total waste of time and money by this "CEOP", who are about to waste millions more as a result of the abuse this system will generate. If they think that people won't take advantage of this to play jokes on their friends and waste time then they are truely insane - of course they will..the vast majority of the reports they get will be fake and will either get innocent people in to trouble or just waste staff time.

    The people arguing for this kind of button will say of course that even if one child gets saved as a result of it then the service and all the aggro is worth it - and you can't really disagree with that. The point is that I can't see how its going to help?

    The people really at risk are those who either a) /want/ to go along with it and are happy to go and respond to "predators" (and yes they do exist - a friends cousin who was only 15 had a liking of meeting older men on websites like facebook for sex..but thats another story which I dont want to get in to). or b) don't realise whats going on until its too late.

    In both of those cases this sort of button wouldn't help as the child would never report it..why would they if they wanted it or didint realise what was going on.

    So this is silly imo, would make much more sense to spend the time and money on educating children of the wrongs/dangers here and to try and catch the paedophiles themselves rather than opening up ceop to yet more abuse.

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    Re: News - Facebook reaches compromise on safety ‘panic button’

    Just realised, if you have the app installed, your friends can see it on you're facebook profile. I can imagine the amount of crap you're gonna get at school tomorrow.....

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