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Facebook is about to launch a ‘report button’ that gives people the ability to warn the Facebook Safety team if they are concerned about a friend or family member. So when you read posts from a friend and you think he or she may feel down, depressed or even want to harm themselves, you can press the button. The Facebook Safety team will send the person in question a message telling that a friend is concerned about him or her. Then there are a couple of options: talk to a friend, contact a helpline, get tips and support or deny the message. Facebook hopes to prevent people from harming themselves.

 

So what does this tell us about the way we are living these days? I think we get more and more isolated from the real world, partly because of social media like Facebook. We get more individual then ever. Besides that, cyberbullying is a big issue that causes many depressions every day. Thinking about these facts, it looks like the cause now becomes the remedy. 

A couple of years ago Facebook started with Facebook Safety. A tool that gives users the chance to let friends and family know they are okay in times of a disaster or crisis. Facebook developed the tool in times of the 2011 earthquake in Japan. Now, they expand Facebook Safety with a new feature.

 

Facebook has grown into one of the biggest companies in the world with over 1.65 billion active users. Facebook is used to share social activities. In many cases the post people share are about very personal feelings and therefore very significant. Sometimes you can tell how someone feels just by reading his or her timeline. The makers of Facebook must have noticed this and came up with this new feature.