Facebook-What Should Be Posted on Social Media

Facebook head of global policy Monika Bickert and deputy general counsel Chris Sonderby on Sunday March 15, 2015 wrote an article about community standards. This was designed for people to understand what is acceptable for sharing on the social network. Facebook removes posts containing content about direct threats, self-injury, terrorist organization associations, bullying, attacks on public figures, criminal activity, sexual exploitation and regulated goods.

Facebook said that the conversations “mirrors the diversity of more than one billion people” that happens on the social media network. The goal is to give people a way to share and connect freely in a safe environment. Sometimes Facebook has to restrict access to content because it violates laws in different countries. Facebook complies with government requests to restrict content based on their local laws, but the social network company challenges requests that seem unreasonable.

Facebook’s Community Standards are broken into four sections: 

i.Helping to keep you safe

ii.Encouraging respective behavior,

iii.keeping your account and personal information secure.

iv.Protecting your intellectual property. 

If one notice that that a Page or profile posted content that violates the Community Standards, it can be reported by clicking on the “Report” link at the arrow in the top right-hand corner of the post. You can also unfollow, block or hide content from Pages or people you don’t want to see.

Meanwhile, the Community Standards outline Facebook expectations when it comes to what content is or is not acceptable in our community, countries have local laws that prohibit some forms of content said Facebook in a statement.

In some countries, for example, it is against the law to share content regarded as being blasphemous. While blasphemy is not a violation of the Community Standards, we will still evaluate the reported content and restrict it in that country if we conclude it violates local law. Although, Facebook policies are not changing. The updates to the Community Standards simply provide more detail on the policies and examples of what is not acceptable