An automatic advert for the service will appear on the homepage of users aged 13 to 18, encouraging them to add the facility on their Facebook profile.<\/p>\n
The application is a joint initiative between the website and CEOP, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, which tackles the sexual abuse of youngsters, including “grooming” through the Internet.<\/p>\n
Users will be able to bookmark the ClickCEOP service or add it as an application to find information about online safety.<\/p>\n
CEOP Centre chief executive Jim Gamble said they knew from speaking to offenders that a visible deterrent could protect young people on the web.<\/p>\n
Calls for the inclusion of a “panic button” for youngsters grew in Britain earlier this year after the conviction of a serial rapist who used the site to pose as a young boy to lure and murder a teenage girl.<\/p>\n
Joanna Shields, Facebook’s vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, added: “There is no single silver bullet to making the Internet safer but… we have developed a new way of helping young people stay safe online.<\/p>\n
“It is only through the constant and concerted effort of the industry, police, parents and young people themselves that we can all keep safe online.”<\/p>\n
Britain’s crime prevention minister James Brokenshire said: “It’s a sad fact that we are now seeing more cases where sex offenders are using social networking sites to conceal their identities in order to contact children.<\/p>\n
“While this solution provides real help it is also vital that government continue to work with industry, police, and parents to educate children about the dangers they may face online.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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