Facebook: Advisory Board for Online Safety
Facebook, a social networking site, has formed a Safety Advisory Board consulting on any issues related to online safety to better protect its 350 million users worldwide. It is consists of five (5) Internet safety organizations: Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and The Family Online Safety Institute, from North America and Europe.
Facebook is planning to meet the board members regularly to:
- review existing safety resources it provides its users
- develop new materials
- seek advice on general safety best practices
For the first task, the board needs to oversee an overhaul of safety content in Facebook’s Help Center. The main goal of the overhaul: to create a comprehensive resource with specific educational content for parents, teachers and teens.
According to Facebook’s director of European public policy, Richard Allan, we need group effort to improve safety online. We need to work together. Everyone who’s online or on Facebook should be diligent enough to report abusive behavior or make sure that the passwords for the accounts are kept secured. Safety issues for Facebook users include cyberbullying and phishing.
Facebook and its rival MySpace, owned by News Corp, wanted to increase their efforts for them to protect their youngest members from any kind of abuse.
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