The social networking site facebook tool allows your friends and family the possibility of reassurance for your safety in the event of exposure to disaster
This feature was renamed b (safety check) where acquaintances can be assured you in the event that your area for any form of natural disasters. Where dependent feature of the city included in your personal account or another geographic record of place you're in, or even the last place you used to connect to the Internet, then it will Facebook activated to identify the persons who are in the affected area this tool, and then send the notice about the safety of these people
This tool allows the user to choose one of the options, "I'm okay" or "I'm not in the region," but you can do this process on behalf of someone, but they need approval from the account holder prior to publication
Having selected a former two options, will generate publication (newsfeed story) teaches others your situation. If the user has some of the friends in the affected area and who were sent notice of "I'm okay", then it will take him to notice the tab (Security check), which contains a list of updates to reassure all of his friends
In a press statement to Facebook, combine all of vice president of sales for the site Naomi Gleit, Director of Sales Sharon Zeng, and software engineer Peter Cottle, they said that: "The feature came to help users when exposed to a disaster or in the case could not be the possibility of communicating with them so as to check for safety their loved ones
He added: "In these days has become to communicate is the most important for each of the people who are in dangerous areas or for people worried about them
The tool development (Safety Check) the efforts of engineers after the earthquake and tsunami Japan in 2011, where was created special disaster-messaging board (Disaster Message Board) to facilitate communication after the disaster that claimed the lives of nearly 20 thousand people and destroyed about 300 thousand homes, causing displacement of 400 thousand people, according to the statistics of the American Red Cross, is supposed to check the safety feature (Safety Check) for streamlined communications after disasters
According to the (Associated Press), this service will be universally available on both Android devices and IOS devices and computers as well, which are used to gain access to Facebook, especially in developing countries
And she says the company's management: We hope that this tool will help you communicate with the people you care about and gives you peace of mind notifies the safety of your loved ones.
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