The Report-Abuse Button: “I’m Gonna Tell!”

Being a tattletale was never this easy! And eventually, it just had to come to this: a report-abuse button. Because quite frankly, there are a lot of people out there who get harassed daily in chat rooms and instant messaging applications. Besides, you can’t blame adults for wanting to protect their kids from being sexually harassed or being at the receiving end of fowl behavior online.

MSN users in the UK now get a new report-abuse button to add to their arsenal in the chat application. Clicking the button will alert the police and report them of the suspicious behavior. The police at the other end of the line will help the child deal with the miscreant. The operators will tell them how to get info about the attacker take control of the conversations, and then track them down.

Being a tattletale was never this easy! And eventually, it just had to come to this: a report-abuse button. Because quite frankly, there are a lot of people out there who get harassed daily in chat rooms and instant messaging applications. Besides, you can’t blame adults for wanting to protect their kids from being sexually harassed or being at the receiving end of fowl behavior online.

MSN users in the UK now get a new report-abuse button to add to their arsenal in the chat application. Clicking the button will alert the police and report them of the suspicious behavior. The police at the other end of the line will help the child deal with the miscreant. The operators will tell them how to get info about the attacker take control of the conversations, and then track them down.