Facebook launches redesigned ‘Safety Center’

Posted April 13, 2010 at 10:25 a.m.

By Wailin Wong | Facebook launched Tuesday a redesigned version of its Safety Center, a section of the social networking platform’s Web site that offers resources for parents, teachers and other users.

The Safety Center comprises multimedia information from both Facebook and a number of independent organizations, including members of Facebook’s Safety Advisory Board such as Common Sense Media, a San Francisco-based non-profit that reviews Web sites, television shows, movies and other types of media from a family-friendly perspective. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Facebook said the revamped Safety Center is the first collaboration between the company and the Safety Advisory Board, which was started in December.


Visitors to the Safety Center can get advice and answers to common
questions organized into four categories: Parents, Educators, Teens and
Law Enforcement. The topics covered include cyberbullying, how to report
abuse or harassment and how Facebook works with law enforcement
officials.

In a statement, Facebook said the new online portal “is the latest
component of an aggressive global safety strategy” that also includes
working with the New York Attorney General to disable the accounts of
registered sex offenders.

 

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