Facebook Moves to Protect Under-18′s
by Muhammad on May 9, 2008
in Social Media
With the myriad of cases where under-18′s were caught and disciplined with evidence gained from Facebook. Facebook is now tweaking its site in order to better protect users who are under 18.
Among the Safety aspects put in place are:
- “Safety Messaging” which will warn under 18 users when they are about to disclose personal information to any unknown adult users.
- Restricting members from changing their listed age.
- Increased prominence of displayed safety tips
- Facebook will maintain a list of pornographic sites and regularly sever any links with them from the social networking site.
- Searching on Facebook will restrict adult users from searching for users under 18 years of age.
- Blocking alcohol, tobacco and other restricted product advertising from under-age users
Apart from this Facebook will also require all developers of applications for Facebook to adhere to it’s Safety and Privacy guidelines. Recently facebook has also agreed to join the Internet Safety Technical Task Force which is currently headed by MySpace and hosted at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
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