Last updated on 17 October 2014
Teenagers are among the first users of social networks, they are also the first victims of digital harassment. If the notion of digital reputation is gaining ground among young people who are now paying more attention to their image on the web, it is more difficult to face the images of you that others can put online.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google+ offer the possibility to request the deletion of content that is detrimental to the user’s privacy. Here is a kind of emergency kit with all useful links to request that content be removed from social networks.
The micro blogging platform has set up a page of advice in the form of instructions for use in dealing with situations of harassment. Twitter advises not to follow the user(s), block it and then give essential advice, not to be alone and to seek support from friends or family. Twitter also offers an online form to report this type of behaviour and invasion of your privacy. Don’t forget to tick, I am directly quoted. Link: Twitter Reporting Form
It is arguably the network with the most abuses and breaches of privacy. The company is trying to answer them. The social network has thus set up an option on each published photo that allows to report an abusive image. Facebook has also set up a dedicated page to report a privacy breach. You can double the denunciation by also filling out a form that allows you to denounce a breach of the terms of use Facebook. Link: Facebook Reporting Form
On the ever-increasing popularity of the photo social network, the process is relatively simple. Each published photo is accompanied by an ‘options’ button. You can click on ‘hide from my profile’ so that the image no longer appears in your Timeline. If you are tagged on an image, click on "More options" and then "Remove me from Photo" to delete the tag. You can still report inappropriate content by clicking on "Report Inappropriate". The Instagram network explains this step by step on a dedicated support page. Link: Instagram Help
Google and Google+
Less used mas not without risks however the social network of the giant of Mountain View offers a dedicated form to report a breach of privacy. This concerns both publications and comments. For the search engine this time, users in Europe can call on Google to delete search results through a ‘right to be forgotten’ form imposed by the European Court of Justice. A service like Forget.me that I presented to you on my blog Tools of the Watch makes it easier to manage this right to be forgotten digitally. You will be able to delete the content of the Google results that will not remove it from the original page. Link: Google + Reporting Form
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