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Facebook has announced it will allow a "panic button" application on its social networking site.

The button, aimed at children and teenagers, will report abuse to the UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) and Facebook.

Once it is installed, the application appears on their homepage to say that "they are in control online".

Ceop, the government agency tasked with tracking down online sex offenders, called for a panic button to be installed on social networking sites last November.

Bebo became the first network to add the button with MySpace following suit, but Facebook resisted the change, saying its own reporting systems were sufficient.

But pressure mounted on Facebook after the sad murder of one of its users who was killed by a boy she met on the site.

Forty-four police chiefs in England, Wales and Scotland, signed a letter backing Ceop's call for a panic button on every Facebook page.

The agreement to launch a child safety application is the culmination of months of negotiation between Ceop and Facebook.

Jim Gamble, Ceop's chief executive, said in a statement: "Our dialogue with Facebook about adopting the ClickCeop button is well documented - today however is a good day for child protection.

Facebook's head of communications in the UK, Sophy Silver, told BBC News that the new app would integrate reporting into both Facebook and Ceop's systems.

"Both sides are happy as to where we have got," she said.

"We still have the Facebook reporting system and by having a pre-packaged application that users play an active part in, you not only help keep them safe, it makes all of their friends aware too.

"Ultimately though, this makes for a safer environment for users and that's the most important part," she added.

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panic button
زر الإنذار
application
برنامج أو تطبيق إلكتروني
abuse
إساءة
child exploitation
استغلال الاطفال
sex offender
معتد جنسي
pressure
ضغط
integrate
يندمج
ultimately
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