In an ongoing battle against spam or any abuse, Facebook has included a “Report” feature for the profile, page or group which users are allowed to file an abuse report. When clicked, this particular abuse reporting will immediately be submitted to the Facebook user operation team members and the aforesaid action will be filed for further review.

To-date, Facebook users are not only allowed to report user, page or group, it has updated the site and gave its users to quickly report any offensive photo and video. According to a blog post of Facebook, “We created much more granular reporting categories for you to classify the issues you may come across including bullying or unwanted contact from other people on the site. We also added new fields where you can detail the location of abuse that occurs in videos or text.”

For video, users now can tell Facebook the specific time during the video when the abuse occurs. But in contrast to the note reporting, users can copy and paste the offensive text directly from the source.

In fact, as far as the reason of reporting is concerned, the categories for the reason will vary solely depend on what a user is reporting on. For instance, when reporting an offensive photo, users can select from the following reasons: nudity or pornography, drug use, excessive gore or violence, attacks individual or group, advertisement or spam or infringes on your intellectual property. However, Facebook will not remove a photo or video simply because it’s unflattering.

As Jessica Ghastin wrote in the Facebook blog, “The information you provide helps our international team of professional reviewers prioritize reports and know what they’re looking for when reviewing the content.”

Nevertheless, learn to locate the “report” link (it’s in the bottom of the left-hand sidebar), and use this abuse reporting feature as it can help to protect the site integrity. Hopefully, this can be another key feature in alleviating the spam problem in Facebook.

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