Should social networking sites such as Facebook be doing more to proect children? Jim Gamble, chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection thinks so:

His comments came after Bebo introduced a “Ceop report” button for users to log abuse. Clicking on the tool, which appears automatically under users’ profile pictures, opens a window inviting victims to log “violations of Bebo’s terms of service” – including bullying, hate speech and sexually explicit content.

The Ceop button was added across Bebo’s website yesterday. As well as functioning as a bullying deterrent, the tool can be used to report inappropriate behaviour toward a child directly to specially trained Ceop officers.

Facebook and MySpace are yet to install the Ceop tool, and Gamble criticised such sites for not taking up the free service.

via The Guardian