Facebook Bullying Prevention Hub, Can it Change Lives?

By Adriana Gray - 27 Oct '16 13:27PM
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Bullying continues to become a serious problem for a huge number of teenagers nowadays. We cannot just ignore it because it often leads to some tragic and devastating event.
Sometimes social media are used to do the bullying. But it seems like Facebook have the answers to the problem.

Facebook revamps its tools.

 With the used of the tool, users can flag their friends post to get advice on how ' personally talk to that friend or ask Facebook to send that friend resources.When you see a post from your friend on Facebook that shows any indication of depression suicidal or anything disturbing. What will you do?
Well here's how to use the tool.

Don't miss it: How to use it?

For Bullying Prevention

Go to the post Click down arrow in the top right corner Select "report post" Click, "I think It shouldn't be on Facebook" Then select what is wrong with the post you said.

For Suicidal Post

Go to the post Click down arrow in the top right corner Select "report post" Select "It's threatening, violent or suicidal Another window will open and ask to choose whether it is "self-injured or suicide"

Facebook also provide some times on how to handle the situation, Do not panic. If you have a friend that is thinking about suicide, try to talk to them and listen to them to defuses the urge to do a suicide. If the talking does not do any good Facebook added hotlines for an emergency like that.

Hotline and sources are all provided by Facebook, so you don't have to go outside to look for help.
Users must know about it so when that situation occur they already know what to do.
A short reminder from Facebook,Facebook- " Always take any direct threat of suicide or a suicidal content comment seriously. "
 

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