Should Facebook have a panic button?

[JamesHunt]

Calls for Facebook to place a "panic button" on its pages have received the support of 44 police chiefs in England, Wales and Scotland, it has emerged.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8616980.stm

[Nalos6]

Personally something like this should be placed on the page out of courtesy and for the well being of Facebook's customers. On another note, I don't think something such as this should be required by law, governments around the world are already digging their heel in with numerous internet restrictions; giving governments anymore power over the internet will just fuel their desire for control.

[ALYSINCLAIRxxx]

It's a worthy idea in theory, but the reality is it will be abused and cause more trouble than it's worth to have a "button" like that. That's like having an explosion button at someone's finger tips. BOOM. And, good things probably won't happen even if it's unwarranted.

[thx1138]

Wonderful, another opportunity for police types to poke their noses into facebook to download the personal information. If a child under 18 is posting on FB where are his/her parents? Why aren't they supervising their child's contactees?

[Richctdude]

waste of time

[SarahG]

Wonderful, another opportunity for police types to poke their noses into facebook to download the personal information. If a child under 18 is posting on FB where are his/her parents? Why aren't they supervising their child's contactees?

You don't have to be 18 to use FB, I believe the min age is 13, and they use that age only because of age of consent laws (regarding contract law because of requiring users to agree with a TOS).

What high school kid doesn't use FB or myspace by now?

[dussillo]

Pourquoi passer par facebook alors qu'il suffit d'appeler la police.

Why use facebook if you are a phone for call the police.