Facebook has redesigned its Safety Center to have a greater focus on cyber-bullying. The update brings the Bullying Prevention Hub to everyone on Facebook. The Hub is a resource for teens, parents and educators seeking guidance on how to prevent and address online trolling and other forms of cyber-bullying. The new Safety Center also walks people through the tools Facebook offers in more than 50 languages includes step-by-step videos on a variety of popular safety topics.
The chief security officer at Facebook, Alex Stamos said:” people come to Facebook to share important and personal moments in their lives, that’s why we build our services and tools to help people remain in control and protect their accounts”.
Cyber bullying is happening every day, I am very happy that Facebook starts to do something to prevent it. Many people hide behind the screen to attack others, some people suicided because of cyber bullying. I hope every social media can pay attention on it and come up with some ideas to help people who are bullying or bullied before.
Link: http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/facebook-focuses-on-cyberbullying/
Cyber-bullying is one of the most underrated area of focus of cyber-security. This is certainly a good first step from Facebook in an effort to minimize cyber-bullying and other social medias should follow. However, this effort will have minimal impact to significantly reduce cyber-bullying. One of the most effective ways to combat cyber-bullying could be a security risk of its own that many people are unwilling to give up, which is the requirement to use real names on social media accounts.
What a great initiative from Facebook. Cyber-bullying is an extremely important topic that more people need to take seriously. I hope this will lead to less non-cyber bullying.
I thought real name account can help reduce cyber bullying before. But if Facebook has this kind of issue, then what about twitter, instagram (do not require to use real name). Cyber bullying is really a serious problem that every social media should pay attention on.