Comments on: Facebook’s Minimalistic Solution for a Panic Button

By: Mary Kay

Mary Kay — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:45:12 +0000

I haven’t reached out to Facebook.
I’m optimistic that Mark might be reading my blog though

By: Gerry Steinhauer

Gerry Steinhauer — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:24:01 +0000

As you say it’s a start so let’s award Facebook a few stars for that but the app is:
1 Very difficult to find
2 Confusing when you do find it
3 Tells the user to fill out a report or contact their local police
Taking all of this in combination you have a situation where the app is not going to have any real impact.
Apart from the above as you have already mentioned it only applies to the UK and only there because of the bad press they have been having.
Surely there should be a worldwide app which sends the user to their own country’s relevant help organisation. This should be combined with a default setting of on and visible on the home page for all new and existing accounts.
Then the only challenge that Facebook faces is that simply having a button or an app or whatever does not improve safety at all. It is use of the app that will improve safety but they cannot force users to use it.
The key to everything is awareness and that is where they (and every other social networking site) fall way short of the mark. An education campaign is needed to teach awareness of the dangers of social networking but conspicuous by it’s absence.
We, at my company i-PAT in the UK, have been trying to speak to Facebook for a long time about this issue and how it can be resolved but have so far met a blank wall of silence.
Have you had any luck in speaking with Facebook? and if so how did you manage it?

By: gunilla caisson

gunilla caisson — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:14:40 +0000

I forgot to write my web adress for those parents who are interesting, in another aspect, of the well-being of our children. http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/the_forgotten_children/

By: gunilla caisson

gunilla caisson — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:05:16 +0000

Glad to see that there are grown-ups that are interested in what our children are exposed to on the Net and try to suggest how to minimize the damage. This must be such a problem for parents to manage. How to monitor, all what is going on, on facebook for example.
So much scary things that the parents know nothing about.
Keep up your good work/guncai from Twitter *smile*