School Bullying Council

Whether it is Cyber, Mental, Physical or emotional, It hurts, Oh so much. And it NEEDS to stop. These are just some of the stories and points I have seen. Bullying is pathetic, It sickens me. Critism is acceptable, aslong as it isn’t Mean, or racist or horrible… ~ Jacki Brown PS The signs read. And the signs say from the start. ~Bullying. ~Whether it’s cyber or not, Doesn’t matter… ~It hurts people… ~ But there can be many sides to a story… ~Just Remember to speak out against it… ~ Wit

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Poll finds social networks the place where Australian kids are most likely to be bullied online. Picture: Getty Images
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AUSTRALIA rates number one in the world for bullying on social networks like Facebook, according to a global poll.

While Australia ranked fifth for cyber-bullying overall, nine out of ten parents said when the harassment occurred it was on these types of sites – much higher than the global average of six in 10.

The Ipsos Social Research Institute survey of 24 countries ranked Australia worse for bullying than all of the European countries, along with the US, Britain and China.

The four countries ranking higher than us, in order, were India, Indonesia, Sweden and Canada.

The research comes just a week after Victorian schoolgirl Sheniz Erkan took her own life after being tormented by Facebook bullies.

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Ispsos director Ryan Williams said the goal was to find out how prevalent cyber-bullying was and to find out where it was taking place.

“According to parents, Australian children were less likely to experience bullying in an online chat room, via email, or on their mobile phone, compared to global averages – but were more likely than any other nation to experience bullying via social networking sites, such as Facebook,” Mr Williams said.

Australia ranked 15th for mobile devices, 22nd for online chat, 17th for emails, 20th for instant messages, 21st for general websites and 18th for other forms of technology.

No Australian parent reported bullying was a persistent issue with their children.

Kids Helpline manager of strategy and research John Dalgleish said the rise of cyber bullying was a massive concern as it took it harassment from the playground directly into victim’s bedrooms.

Mr Dalgleish said the rise of social networking sites meant bullying was no longer limited to the classroom and teenagers faced further exposure to harassment thanks to the rise of social networking sites such as Facebook.

“Cyber bullying has a profound impact as it widens the audience (from school) and means it can be seen by anyone,” he said.

“It can be used as an extension of face-to-face bullying and takes it from the classroom and into a child’s own bedroom undermining their sense of safety and security.”

KidsHelpline, which offers hundreds of counselling services to bullying victims a year, urged young people affected by the harassment to come forward and speak out.

Mr Dalgleish said victims should tell a trusted adult or parent who can take action on their behalf, and in extreme cases take it to the police.

He added previous studies on the long-term effects of bullying had showed positive outcomes and an end to the behaviour after victims had told someone about it.

“The first thing victims need to know is it’s not their fault,” he said.

“Action can be taken and it can be stopped.”

Bullying can result in chronic anxiety, depression, fear, anxiety, withdrawal from school and in the worst cases, self-harm.

Parents are urged to monitor their children’s social networking use and speak to them about appropriate behaviour on the internet.

Anyone experiencing bullying or harassment is urged to visit KidsHelpline.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/anti-social-network-australia-the-facebook-bullying-capital/story-e6frfro0-1226246496953

Online spats between school children are spiralling out of control, leading to hate messages, violence and death threats. Picture: The Daily Telegraph
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ONLINE spats between school children are spiralling out of control, leading to hate messages, violence and even death threats.

Experts say 10 per cent of all children now claim to have been cyber-bullied, The Daily Telegraph reported.

The enraged father of one teenage schoolgirl became so incensed by comments he believed a boy had made about his daughter on a social networking site that he accosted him in the street and threatened to “slit his throat”.

The man approached the Year 8 boy as he walked to a bus stop on the state’s mid-north coast and pushed and threatened him before boarding the bus, where he issued further death threats to the boy and other students.

In another disturbing case, a mum went to a school in western NSW and urged her Year 10 daughter to assault another girl after an exchange on a social networking site.

Both girls were suspended, police were called and the mum was banned from entering the school under the Inclosed Lands Act.

In the Tuggerah Lakes area on the NSW central coast, comments on a social networking site led to a Year 8 female being assaulted by another Year 8 girl.

One of the students, who sustained swelling to her forehead and complained of feeling dizzy and nauseous, was taken to hospital. The other girl injured her hand.

Schools increasingly are asking police to investigate serious student online bullying and have shored up cyber safety programs in a bid to head off more trouble.

The NSW Department of Education and Communities has enlisted international expert Professor Donna Cross to help advise students and families about online behaviour.

Professor Cross, from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, specialises in preventing and responding to aggression. She said about 10 per cent of children now reported being cyber-bullied.

Children who cyber-bullied also were 18 times more likely to bully others in the real world, Professor Cross said.

She said bullies often had higher levels of depression than the victims: “They’re also more likely to be engaging in problem behaviour – unsafe sexual behaviours, smoking, using drugs, graffiti, stealing and truanting.”

Bullying peaks in children at about Year 5 and again at about Year 7 or Year 8.

The first peak coincides with children discovering the power of the peer group and creating their own social pecking order. The second peak occurs when children move from primary school to secondary school.

Researchers have found cyber-bullied kids suffer poor academic achievement, anxiety, depression, poorer physical health, higher school absenteeism, increased loneliness and low self-esteem.

The Department of Education said Facebook could not be accessed on school computers. Its Digital Citizenship website, which deals with bullying and other issues, has received thousands of hits from all over the world. 

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The exchange between the Echols Middle School students soon turned sour. The classmate criticized Rachel, 13, for a comment she left on another girl’s photo, and the messages became insulting.

A few days later, one of the other girl’s friends created a Facebook page called “I Hate Rachel Smith.”

Between 50 and 70 classmates joined. They called Rachel fat. They called her ugly. They called her a lesbian — she’s not.

Rachel wrote the girl, asking her to take the page down. Rachel’s mother, Peggy, reported the group to Facebook administrators, and it was eventually removed. Her own friends created a group called “Rachel Smith is Loved.”

Months later, the relationship between the girls is still tense.

“It’s just drama,” Rachel said. “I’m pretty sure that everyone in the eighth grade knows the situation. I just try to ignore it. I wish I could change schools.”

Bullying has become an increasing problem for school officials nationwide than perhaps ever before.

Because so many teens are tech-savvy, most of the bullying has been cyberbullying, either through cellphone text messages or online social networking sites. Some cases have led to teenagers killing themselves, in some cases because they were being bullied.

The Alabama Legislature has tried to crack down on bullying, passing the Student Harassment Prevention Act, which went into effect on Oct. 1, 2009.

The Student Harassment Prevention Act requires that all public school systems in the state adopt policies to prevent students from being bullied, defined as being harassed, intimidated, threatened or hurt in an act of violence by other students.

The law also requires schools to document incidents of bullying.

Greg Hurst, coordinator of student services for the Tuscaloosa County School System, said that in the 2010-11 school year, there were 51 incidents of bullying and harassment in the Tuscaloosa County School System.

So far this school year, there have been 12 documented incidents of bullying and harassment, Hurst said.

He said that none of the incidents were classified as cyberbullying. Four of the incidents led to suspensions.

Vickie Brown, director of student services for the Tuscaloosa City Schools, said that in the city system, there were 22 incidents of threats or intimidation and 84 incidents of harassment that resulted in out-of-school suspensions in the 2010-11 school year.

So far this school year, there have been 41 reports of bullying or threats, Brown said.

She said cyberbullying is not documented separately from other types of bullying, so she couldn’t provide the number of incidents in the city school system that involved cyberbullying, but she did say there have been more cases of it.

“Cyberbullying is certainly an area that has increased over the past few years and is an area we are addressing frequently in the school setting,” Brown said in a written statement.

Despite school officials’ efforts, some parents say it’s not enough. Peggy Smith said she has complained to her daughter’s school about continued harassment of her daughter. Rachel and the other girl are in the same gym class, and have had unpleasant exchanges in the locker room, where there is no adult supervision. Smith said she called the school resource officer after the other girl allegedly threatened Rachel, who was in turn blamed for a prank phone call. Both girls were warned, but no further action was taken.

“They’ve called my daughter a drama queen,” she said of school officials. “Her grades have fallen because of this. It’s just devastating that she’s tormented every day.”

Both school systems, however, say they have done a lot to try to end bullying in school.

Hurst said the county has started educating students about bullying and cyberbullying, provided small group counseling for students at Davis Emerson Middle School twice a week, educated teachers about bullying and created a committee of school district leaders who are creating procedures to assist with appropriate use of social networking and prohibit cyberbullying.

“The Tuscaloosa County School System, students, parents and community will continue our relentless pursuit to decrease bullying in all schools,” Hurst said in a written statement. “Children go to school to learn and should be allowed to do so in a safe environment. Therefore, it is everyone’s goal to make sure that our students are safe and protected.”

Since the state’s student harassment law went into effect, the city school system has revised its anti-harassment and anti-bullying policies by extending the system’s jurisdiction beyond school.

“Since cyberbullying is on the rise, we may have a situation that manifest itself at school the next day such as a fight that originated on Facebook the night before,” Brown said. “(The jurisdiction extension) allows the school system to deal with issues that affect the educational process, even if they did not initially occur during the instructional day.”

The city system has also trained its employees how to report cases of bullying and harassment, hosted community forums to raise awareness about bullying and trained people on how to deal with it. The system has also sent Brown to a national training session on preventing bullying. The training was conducted by Dennis Lewis, who is considered a national leader in providing training on establishing and maintaining safe schools.

Brown said she plans to teach what she learned there to other administrators in the system.

“The administration of Tuscaloosa City Schools is making every effort to ensure a safe learning environment is provided for every student in our district by aggressively addressing the area of bullying and harassment in our system by creating a positive school climate,” Brown said. “We want to be proactive, not just reactive.”

Reach Stephanie Taylor at stephanie.taylor@tuscaloosanews.com or 205-722-0210. Reach Jamon Smith at jamon.smith@tuscaloosanews.com or 205-722-0204.

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Dr. Bikkar Singh Lalli

The wave of shocking suicides by teenagers, who were allegedly being bullied and sexually harassed, have stunned many parents, schools authorities, lawmakers and communities. Lady Gaga has started pushing for legislation to outlaw bullying after a 14 year old Jamey Rodermeyer, from Buffalo New York, committed suicide on Sept. 18.  He was bullied for because of his perceived sexuality. In the same week, in Mississauga, a 16 year-old boy killed his best friend and then jumped off an overpass. On Sept. 26.  Jeff Klein, a New York democratic senator, introduced a new “Cyberbullying Bill” in the senate. He says that “outdated pre-digital harassment laws fail to punish bullies who use the Internet and smart phones to torment others”.  Thirty three states already have laws dealing with online harassment.

What is Cyberbullying? “Cyberbullying is any harassment that occurs via the Internet. Vicious forum posts, name calling in chat rooms, posting fake profiles on web sites, and sending cruel email messages, are all ways of cyberbullying”. It is easier to bully in cyberspace than it is to bully face to face. Children these days are well versed in the use of electronic gadgets and net-communications. They use text messages and instant messages routinely. They blog; they socialize on Facebook. So, no wonder they bully each other electronically. Educators, lawmakers, parents, and police in Canada are now grappling with the way to respond to cyberbullying/sexting. So far the approach has been mainly education rather than prosecution. The province of Nova Scotia has set up a Task Force, with Professor Wayne Mackay as chair, and with members from Teachers’ union, School Boards Association and Association of School Administrators, to study the bullying problem inside and outside the schools and in the wider community. A final report is expected in December 2011.

“Suicide is the second leading cause of death among teenagers in Canada, and the start of the school is a particularly high-risk time for vulnerable youth” (Globe and Mail-Sept.24, 2011). According to University of Toronto psychologist Darcy Santor, 91 per cent of suicides victims are suffering from some sort of mental illness possibly caused by depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse, bullying, social isolation and some other factors, at the time of deaths. In a study by MTV/Associated Press, released on Sept. 27, 2011, it is revealed that more than half of the respondents have been the target of mean behaviour or fake gossip on social-networking sites or text messages.

Teens in today’s society have easy access to cell phones, with three out of every four owning them. Sending and receiving text messages via one’s cell phone has become extremely popular. It is estimated that a teen sends or receives, on average, 3000 text messages each month. In a bullying survey (Ethics of American Youth Survey-Oct.2010), half of U.S. High schoolers say they have bullied or harassed someone at least once in the past year and nearly half say they have been bullied in that time; 19 per cent of teens aged 13-19 had sent a sexually-suggestive picture or video of themselves to someone via e-mail, cell phone or through other online interaction, while 31 per cent had received a nude or semi-nude picture from someone. Built-in digital cameras in cell phones have added a new dimension to the problem. Over half (52 per cent) of teenagers, who are targets of cyberbullying, never actually report it.

A search for solutions cannot be boiled down to passing new legislation or blaming everything from school to technology. Attitudes can never be legislated. A radical shift in cultural norms needs to happen for long-term change to take hold. Children who are bullied often experience low self-esteem and depression. Bullies, who often have been bullied themselves, may pick on others to feel powerful, popular, or in control.

As a parent try your best to bully-proof your teenager. First, it is imperative that you find out if your child is going trough any problems at school or at play grounds. There are some of the indicators or signals which should help you in drawing some conclusions. Is your child inventing some mysterious illnesses to avoid school, for example, stomach aches, headaches etc? In US, it is estimated that 160,000 students miss school everyday due to fear of bullying by other students. Do you find any missing belongings, like money, jacket from your child’s possession? Poor performance in school, lack of concentration in doing home work, irritable mood, desire to be left alone, are some of the indicators parents should look for.

Help your children in developing social skills and the art of helpful socialization. By teaching them family values you can you can give a boost to their self-esteem, self-confidence and help them in regaining the damaged dignity. Tell your teenager to act brave, walk away and ignore the bully. With their input develop some guidelines for using screen technology. Your teenager should not take cell phone to his bed room after certain hours. Some teenagers even send text messages during their sleep, just like sleep walking.Tell them  not to share their password with anybody, including closest buddies. Tell them that they should never post or say anything on the Internet that they would not want the whole world to read, never respond to the bully; never engage in a chat room exchanges. Parents must look at their own boundaries too and become good role models. For a teenager from a visible minority things are doubly tough. There are number of harassment incidents of Muslim students in USA and Sikh students in USA and UK. According to The Council of American Islamic Relations, “the number of bullying incidents against Muslim students has spiked in the wake of perfect economic and political storm: severe economic distress and anti-immigration sentiments, continued wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the conflation of Islam with terrorism”.

It is best to have a meeting with your children and talk about the problems they are likely to face. My three children, 11, 9 and 7, went to an “All White” school. I warned them of possible racial taunts and slurs they would encounter. I emphasized the fact in order to be respected they have to excel in studies and if possible in sports also, and try to be leaders rather than followers and doormats. That is what they did, became star players and top students.

Net-technology is changing very fast. Tablets are taking the place of books; South Korea is taking the lead in the area. Apple is introducing “Kindle Fire” tablet which can store millions of songs and movies. That toy will entice the teenagers to spend more time on playful activities.  They are already spending three hour with peers against one hour with parents. It requires tremendous patience to deal with teenagers, whose brains are not yet fully developed for making  rational and discriminating decisions Let us all keep in mind that cyberbullying is a community problem., and let us deal with it collectively and thoughtfully. Let us protect our most precious wealth. Let us not forget the tragic murder of Miss Maple Batalia –a beautiful 19 year old SFU student-a model and actress who wanted to be a doctor

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The Australia Communications and Media Authority has launched an out of home campaign – a first for the government body – as it looks to raise awareness about digital reputation, sexting, geolocation and cyberbullying among teenagers in Sydney. The posters contain QR codes that enable teens to directly access the cybersmart website by using their cameraphones. Creative and media were devised by Mediabrands.

ACMA is using outdoor following research from the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, which suggested that teenagers pay attention to ads on street fixtures.

“The key message is presented in a strong bold typeface, in a tone of voice that aims to speak with the target rather than at them,’ explained ACMA chairman, Chris Chapman.

The campaign runs until June 19.

The cybersmart website hosts a video targeted at parents that helps them understand the online space in which their children exist.

June 13th, 2011 at 5:11 pm

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By: Peter Chubb | June 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
More In: Android Apps, Apps

While watching the news this morning we learned of the Block’em app to stop cyber-bullying, which is currently available on Android. It seems that people have been looking for the app on BlackBerry and the iPhone, but it looks as though the company is only favoring the Google mobile OS at this moment in time.

It is finally nice to see that a developer has come up with the first anti-bullying app. It is all too easy to catch up with old friends and have a great time texting each other. However, there are times when things go a little wrong and those innocent texts turn bad. We have heard from a number of cases where people are being hassled by hurtful texts day and night, and there was nothing that could be done.

Well now you can take matters into your own hands, and not in an illegal way either. All you need do is install the Block’em app on your handset and then enter the number that you wish to block. This saves so much hassle, as in the past you have had to change your cell phone number in order to stop the bullying.

The price for the app is just £1.79 and 70 percent of that will go to the NSPCC. Not only are you helping yourself, you will also be helping others as well. If you feel that you are the victim of bullying, then please visit ChildLine or ring them on 0800 1111. For more details visit Android Market or the official Blockem website.

Do you think that the Block’em app will finally help to reduce cyber-bullying?

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• I think this is a brilliant app and will save a lot of people from unwanted hassle. Everyone i have spoken to agrees and thinks this app is brilliant- i especially like the fact i know 70% of the cost is donated to the NSPCC. Very worthy cause. 

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Ryan Halligan in 2003.

John Halligan is on a mission and he admits it’s completely personal.

“I’m doing this for my son,” he said as he walked down Main Street in White River Junction, Vermont.

Halligan’s 13 year-old son Ryan committed suicide in 2003, and Halligan blames cyberbullying.

“He was bullied at school about being potentially gay,” he explained, tears welling up in his eyes. “And then it spread on the Internet in the evening mainly through instant messaging.”

Halligan is now waging a campaign of his own to raise awareness about the dangers of cyberbullying. He says the Internet has given school-yard bullies an incredibly powerful tool to harass, intimidate and, in his son’s case, humiliate.

The rumors went around like wildfire, he said, recalling that almost everyone in his son’s middle school, located in Essex Junction Vermont, had almost instant access to the postings about him.

Halligan now spends much of his time traveling around the country, speaking at elementary schools to students his son’s age.

In addition, he’s also trying to convince state legislators to enact laws to prevent student-on-student Internet harassment.

And he’s meeting with some success.

Forty-five states now have laws that address school bullying, and 12 states are considering laws against bullying over the Internet.

It’s a trend that has some free speech advocates worried.

“There is no agreement as to what cyberbullying means,” says Harvey Silverglate, an attorney with the Cato Institute specializing in the Constitution.

“So you are going to have these codes that are written and they’re inevitably going to infringe on free speech.”

He points out it took decades for courts to define “harassment,” in the sexual harassment fights that emerged in the 1960s. He predicts an even longer struggle to define cyberbullying.

“It will take 50 years to figure out what’s bullying and what is the normal give and take among children.” In the meantime, Silverglate predicts political correctness will run amuck.

“The First Amendment is going to take a real hit,” he says.

Silverglate also worries about legislating off-campus behavior for students.

“Students mostly use computers at home,” he explained. “This is going to create a set of rules in the home that will inevitably invade the province that has traditionally been left to the parents.”

Halligan disagrees. He says problems during the day at school often start at home on the computer the night before.

“I think what we’re really trying to do is give the schools an opportunity to discipline students when they create problems for themselves the night before,” he said.

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Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:54 PM on 7th April 2011

A concerned father has developed the world’s first bullying alert system for Facebook which scans text and flags up abusive behaviour.

NHS consultant Paddy Clarke’s software scans walls and inboxes for trigger words and phrases such as ‘gay’ and ‘fat’ and alerts parents when they appear.

The father-of-four came up with the idea after reading a string of cyber-bullying horror stories.

Concerned: Father-of-four Paddy Clarke came up with the idea after reading a string of cyber-bullying horror stories

Mr Clarke, 48, said he hoped his system – called ‘Know Diss’ – will keep children safe from online bullies.

He said: ‘Bullying has now gone from the playground into children’s homes.

‘Kids feel safe sending an abusive message in their rooms. It is pretty awful.

‘Cyber-bullying is very topical at the moment, particularly following some tragic cases where young people have taken their lives because of it.

‘It is hard to believe but this software is the only one in the world to search through text on social networking sites to protect children.

‘Know Diss is a very simple concept. It is also a partnership between parent and child because one cannot sign up without the other.’

Mr Clarke, a consultant in pain relief at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester, joined forces with friend Alan Saul to design and implement Know Diss, which costs £12 for a yearly subscription.

Safety: Mr Clarke hopes his computer program, ‘Know Diss’, will keep children safe from online bullies

Together they trawled through sites such as Urban Dictionary and watched the television series Skins to build their comprehensive database of insults.

Mr Clarke’s program continuously searches through all text on Facebook accounts signed up to the service, including messages, picture comments and posts.

It uses a database of several thousands of words to identify bullying trigger words in a number of spelling variations.

Parents and their children must both sign up by email for the software to work. The child is then sent a link for them to click in order to download Know Diss.

When a bullying phrase is detected, it is copied and immediately emailed to the child’s parent or ‘Facebook guardian’ who can decide whether further action is needed.

An example of a ‘bullying’ phrase which would be picked up by the system is: ‘Go slash your wrists, fat boy’ or words such as ‘gay boy’.

Protection: Facebook said there were a ‘number’ of different ways users could protect themselves from cyber bullies

When triggered, Know Diss automatically sends an email to the
parent which reads: ‘The following text has been picked up on your
child’s Facebook account.

‘Go and have a look at it.’ 

Mr
Clarke of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire – who used his own savings to
fund the project – added: ‘We have an absolutely huge database which
includes spelling variations to make Know Diss as accurate as possible.

‘Children
may initially feel it is being invasive but it does not give the parent
the power to read everything on their profile, just the words which are
picked up by the software.

‘It is very simple. The parent can
read through the text which the software finds ‘bullying’ and decide
whether it really is, or just a joke.

‘They can also keep track of
whether messages come in a series. Bullying tends to operate in a pack
mentality online, one person posts and is followed by 50 others.’ 

Research
shows up to half of children have experienced cyber-bullying in the
past 12 months – half of those do not report it to an adult.

Mr Clarke, whose has three sons and a daughter aged between ten and 20, has already showcased Know Diss at local schools.

And exclusive Cheltenham College is already considering using it to tackle cyber-bullying among pupils.

Alert: When a bullying phrase is detected, it is copied and immediately emailed to the child’s parent. (Picture posed by model)

When a child is registered with Know Diss, a small logo will appear
on their Facebook wall warning posters they are signed up to the
service.

Mr Clarke added: ‘With me being a doctor I am always interested in prevention rather than cure.

‘Having
the logo on the site may prevent young people from cyber bullying
someone if they know the message will be picked up by a parent or
teacher.’

Currently Know Diss only works on Facebook, but Mr
Clarke hopes to hold talks with Twitter and other social networking
sites in the future.

A spokesman for Facebook said there were a ‘number’ of different ways users could protect themselves from cyber bullies.

He said: ‘One person determined to harass another will unfortunately find ways to do so, both online and offline.

‘On Facebook there are a number of measures people can use to stay safe.

‘We encourage people to use our reporting tools, accessible across the entire site, use our blocking tools to prevent unwanted contact, and visit our Safety Centre, which contains tips for young people and parents about how to use Facebook as safely as possible.’ 

Parents and children can register their email addresses at www.knowdiss.co.uk. The programme also works via smartphones.

Last year, Facebook bowed to pressure and provided a new application which allows young users to report suspicious behaviour.

It was announced in July that all users of the social networking site were to be able to access an advice centre from their home page to report suspected grooming or inappropriate sexual behaviour. 

It was the result of Facebook and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre joining forces.

In the past, Facebook had been accused of arrogant complacency in the face of soaring complaints about online paedophiles.

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