Facebook Will Tell Your Friends You Are Safe
The Safety Network
Inspired by Japan's 2011 tsunami, Facebook has released a new feature that aims to help people reconnect after natural disasters. The feature, named 'Safety Check', will let you your friends and family know that you are safe if an natural disaster occurs in your area.How will it work?
Facebook can determine whether you are an area affected by a natural disaster or not from the location in your settings or from where you are getting your internet from. If it turns out you are in an area where there has been a tsunami, earthquake or even a volcanic eruption, Facebook's Safety Check will come into play.Facebook will then send you a notification asking you whether you are safe. If you are, all you have to do is click on the 'I'm Safe' button and Facebook will let your friends know. You also have the option of saying that you are not in the area at all. The feature also lets you know how many of your friends are in the same affected area as you and how many have also clicked the 'I'm Safe' button. You can also mark your friends as safe, if they cannot access Facebook to do so.
Facebook decided to develop this incredibly useful feature when they noticed that when major disasters occurred, people would turn to Facebook to find their family members or reassure their friends. It started out as a Disaster Message Board in Japan and then became Safety Check.
It's nice to see that amidst stealing our personal details for adverts and sponsored ads, Facebook is also trying to genuinely help people. Although this seems like a really cool feature, I do hope that I will never have to use it.
Laura is a recent graduate from University of East Anglia in Film and Television Studies, currently interning as a content writer but hoping to one day live off her writing. Follow her @LauraAtSMF.
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