Facebook Tosses Out ‘Panic Button’ Idea

Facebook has reportedly ruled out installing a ‘panic button’ on Facebook pages which would allow children to report malicious Facebookers directly to authorities, says the BBC. Instead, the world’s largest social-networking website will continue to “develop its existing system.”

The website will provide a plethora of links on its reporting pages which those threatened can use to get in touch with authorities and other counseling services.

In a sense, you could say the exclusion of the ‘panic button’ is actually a good thing. Just think of how many resources would have been wastefully spent in dealing with abuse of the button — with folks left and right crying wolf over what could turn out to be an innocent person with zero malevolent intentions.

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[ via BBC ]