http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-37220396
This article is about the social network, Facebook and their new safety additions. This safety addition is called "safety check". It allows you to notify your facebook friends if you and your friends are okay during a dangerous time. With a simple click of a button, you can let your hundreds of facebook friends know that you're "okay".The dangerous event can be anything from a natural disaster to a violent crime. Safety notifications have already reached 1 billion people around the world. While some people have said that they're should be an "I'm not okay" feature on the website, facebook responded to that saying that the first thing people should do in a situation like that is call the authorities. The feature has existed for a while, but it wasn't until now that a hazard call could be activated by normal users, rather than just staff.
This is a really cool feature that's activated. Even if I moved away from Toledo in 20 years, but still had tons of friends here I would want to know that they are okay. Phone numbers are pretty temporary, and you often only contain those of people that you frequently might talk to, but facebook friends last a lifetime. I always see people criticize social media, saying that it's a useful medium. Sometimes it's taken too far, but this is the kind of thing that makes it so worth it. You cannot text everyone who might care about you during an event like this. You might not even want to talk about the even that's happening near you, and with this system all you do is click a button. You don't have to actually post about it. I think a bigger implication of this is safety increasing through social media. Now that twitter and instagram see this, they're going to want to compete for something similar. It will be good to see more social media trying to make everyone more safe.
This article is about the social network, Facebook and their new safety additions. This safety addition is called "safety check". It allows you to notify your facebook friends if you and your friends are okay during a dangerous time. With a simple click of a button, you can let your hundreds of facebook friends know that you're "okay".The dangerous event can be anything from a natural disaster to a violent crime. Safety notifications have already reached 1 billion people around the world. While some people have said that they're should be an "I'm not okay" feature on the website, facebook responded to that saying that the first thing people should do in a situation like that is call the authorities. The feature has existed for a while, but it wasn't until now that a hazard call could be activated by normal users, rather than just staff.
This is a really cool feature that's activated. Even if I moved away from Toledo in 20 years, but still had tons of friends here I would want to know that they are okay. Phone numbers are pretty temporary, and you often only contain those of people that you frequently might talk to, but facebook friends last a lifetime. I always see people criticize social media, saying that it's a useful medium. Sometimes it's taken too far, but this is the kind of thing that makes it so worth it. You cannot text everyone who might care about you during an event like this. You might not even want to talk about the even that's happening near you, and with this system all you do is click a button. You don't have to actually post about it. I think a bigger implication of this is safety increasing through social media. Now that twitter and instagram see this, they're going to want to compete for something similar. It will be good to see more social media trying to make everyone more safe.
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