Facebook is starting with suicide prevention and offering help to affected users. On Facebook there are not only lovely cat pictures, selfies, strange tests and birthday greetings as well as a number of false reports, but there are also status posts where you are overwhelmed at first. This happens when a friend posts suicidal thoughts.
In the form of a button, users can react immediately to status posts from friends if a friend expresses suicidal thoughts in a post. If a user clicks this button, his friend will receive a message that reads as follows:
“A friend senses that you are going through a difficult time and asked us to take a look at a recent post you published.”
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The friend also receives a message. This contains an invitation to a chat with a hotline advisor. There it says:
“You are not alone, we help many people every month.”
Screenshot Facebook Safety
Cooperation with organizations
Facebook is partnering on this project with the organizations Now Matters Now , the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline , Save.org and Forefron t, an organization of the University of Washington School of Social Work.
Facebook Safety
Further information on this topic can be found on Facebook at “Facebook Saftey” at: https://www.facebook.com/fbsafety/posts/817724748265365
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