As part of Anti-Bullying Week 2009, social-networking site Bebo, whose user base consists chiefly of teens and pre-teens, has added a new button to all its profiles, allowing users to click and report if they suspect that the member in question is involved in bullying, grooming, hacking or any other illegal online activity.
The 'CEOP report button' gives access to advice on issues such as viruses and hacking, and provides details of local police as well as giving the user the option of contacting specially trained CEOP (UK organisation Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) officers via an online reporting mechanism.
Jim Gamble, chief executive of the CEOP said: "There can hardly be a parent in the land whose teenager isn't part of a social-networking site. These environments are huge and bring a vast array of converged facilities - uploads, downloads, chats and so on - that are now so integral to young people's lives."
More on this story from Gadget Republic: Bebo adds anti-bullying button
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Hello!
Welcome to Bullying UK on the second day of Anti-Bullying Week.
We've had a huge number of emails, many of them complaining about cyber bullying and the way that the firms who run social networking websites are simply not removing abuse when you complain.
Among the comments we received yesterday were these:
"I feel there is a light at the end of the tunnel, thankyou very much again for your advice" - from the mum of a teenage boy
" At last I've found a site where you can email instead of phoning!" - from a teenager
"We look forward to hearing from you – we love your website" - from a head teacher
Bullying UK doesn't get any government funding and unlike some other charities we don't spend any money on expensive PR firms or advertising. We prefer to spend our money on helping the pupils and parents who email us, often late at night when traditional phone helplines are closed.
It's Anti-Bullying Week from November 16-20, 2009. Please click here if you can hold an event to help raise funds for Bullying UK. |
Last year racist bullying saw children in England excluded from primary and secondary schools almost 4,000 times. As part of Radio 1's bullyproof anti-bullying campaign, Aston Merrygold from JLS has been talking to BBC Switch presenter Anthony Baxter about his experience of being a victim of this type of abuse.
At 14 Aston joined a football team that some of his friends were in. He was the only black member of the team but says he never thought that would be a problem.
"When you first start in a team, people start to get comfortable with you and you start to make friends," he said. "You have a laugh, and all mates take the mick out of each other, but it got to the point where they'd start making jokes about things that were irrelevant. Skin colour started coming into."
More on this story from the BBC: JLS Aston: I was racially bullied
It's Anti-Bullying Week from November 16-20, 2009. Please click here if you can hold an event to help raise funds for Bullying UK.
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