Facebook Extends Bullying Prevention Hub To U.K., Rest Of Europe, Backs Away From Word ‘Report’

Facebook launched its Bullying Prevention Hub for U.S. users last November, aimed at stamping out bullying on the social network, and the compilation of resources is now available to users in the U.K. and the rest of Europe, according to Sophos’ Naked Security blog.

HowFacebookCanHelp650Facebook launched its Bullying Prevention Hub for U.S. users last November, aimed at stamping out bullying on the social network, and the compilation of resources is now available to users in the U.K. and the rest of Europe, according to Sophos’ Naked Security blog.

According to Naked Security, one of the changes Facebook has implemented since the debut of the Bullying Prevention Hub in the U.S. last November was the removal of the word “report,” as a focus group of 13- to 16-year-olds by Yale University — the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence helped Facebook engineers create the site — found that participants did not like the word and its connotations of getting people in trouble.

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