Facebook introduces new tools to tackle online harassment

Facebook last week introduced a couple of tools, which is aimed at fighting online harassment and can also prevent unwanted friends from reaching you.
The new tools will help Facebook identify bogus accounts quickly and block them every day.

The company says the new feature will let users tap on an unwanted message and ignore the conversation. The social network will automatically disable notifications about the unwanted message and move it to your filtered messages folder. From there, users can read the message without the sender knowing that you have read it.

As of now, the social media giant is offering this feature only for a one-on-one conversation, but the company said that the feature would soon be accessible for group messages.  

Earlier this month, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg had written about her personal experiences with harassment and what companies should do.

Prior to this, Facebook had provided tools that can help one deal with harassment and bullying. For example, a user can unfriend or block the person to prevent him/her from adding you as a friend, so that person cannot view the things that one shares on their Facebook timeline. "If bullying and harassment are severe, you can report the person to the social network," the company said.