Now that more than a quarter of US teens use Twitter, according to the Pew Internet Project, parents might want to know that Twitter has upgraded its abuse-reporting process. Apparently in response to a series of serious threats in Twitter aimed at women journalists in the UK, Twitter is "cracking down" on abusive behavior, USATODAY reports, with specific categories for reporting, including … [Read more...] about Twitter’s improvements to abuse reporting
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How ‘crowdreporting’ could actually be a bad thing
It could help increase the visibility of the very content people want deleted. Here, in a guest post for NetFamilyNews, is an account by Maureen Kochan, our director of community at ConnectSafely.org, of how that happens: By Maureen Kochan Many users of Facebook have come across questionable content on the site on occasion. Chances are they reported it and moved on. But sometimes pages or … [Read more...] about How ‘crowdreporting’ could actually be a bad thing
1st look at Facebook’s ‘social [abuse] reporting’
On the social Web, where content is not just communication but behavior as well, safety is a shared experience. A single user can't guarantee it, no matter how optimized his privacy settings and practices are, nor can a site – not when people can tag, copy, forward, and instantly mass-distribute photos of and info about each other. That's why education about civility, citizenship, and safety … [Read more...] about 1st look at Facebook’s ‘social [abuse] reporting’