 "Facebook produces booklet to help domestic abuse survivors use the website")
Even as Twitter is struggling to make a statement against trolls threatening feminists with rape and violence, Facebook has come out with a document guiding survivors of domestic abuse on using the social network.
Facebook has partnered with the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) to come up with a Privacy and Safety on Facebook booklet called “A guide for survivors of abuse”. The nine-page booklet enlists ways and methods victims of domestic abuse can use to keep their privacy protected on Facebook.
The social networking website says that the guide is aimed at helping survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking learn their way around Facebook and remain safe. It will help make sure that while victims manage to remain connected with their family and friends, they can stay away from their account being misused by abusers, stalkers and perpetrators.
Facebook tells you how to ensure your privacy and safety online
Facebook believes that victims should be able to live a healthy social life despite the fear of abusers. “Telling a victim to go offline to be safe is not only unacceptable, it further isolates her from people who love her. Our role, as advocates, professionals, friends, and family, is to make sure that survivors know the options to maintain their safety. That’s the empowering strategy – helping survivors take back the control that abusers have tried to steal from their lives,” says Cindy Southworth of NNEDV.
The guide goes on to elaborate how to review privacy settings to ensure that perpetrators are locked out of the profile and only the right people have access to personal details on the profile. Another important aspect outlined by the booklet talks about tightening security settings by setting up a security question, enabling details of logins and approval requirement. The guide could come in handy for not just victims of domestic abuse but also regular users of Facebook who put up details and images from their lives onto the social networking website regularly.
You can read through the guide, a great initiative by Facebook, here.
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