Two New Security Features for Facebook Mobile

Posted by Rob LeFebvre on August 9th, 2011

Facebook announced today the addition of both social reporting and password reset to their mobile apps.

Social reporting, a feature available on the web-version of Facebook since March, allows users to submit a report on content they are unhappy about both to the posting user and Facebook. "Safety and child psychology experts tell us that online issues are frequently a reflection of what is happening offline. By encouraging people to seek help from friends, we hope that many of these situations can be resolved face to face," says the social reporting page itself. This feature will now be available on mobile devices, as Facebook reports that almost 70% of these reports result in the original poster removing the offending content on their own. Makes sense why they'd want this on mobile apps, as many of us do our Facebook activities from our iPhones.

The second feature, mobile password reset, seems like a no brainer in a world with continuous access and private information coming and going from websites and iPhone apps like Facebook's. If the comments to the announcement are any indication, many users will benefit from this enhanced security precaution.