Facebook announced the launch of a new tool to protect and assist persons in case of depression and tension and who may offer to suicides, so Facebook will give them the necessary assistance in this regard.
It seems that Facebook has become aware that it is no longer just a space for virtual networking among people, but became a transfer mechanism that users with their problems and their suffering and their feelings, so the company decided to contribute actively to combating new phenomenon may begin from the virtual world and the phenomenon of suicide.
And although the social networking site has since year 2011 application form for alert against suicide cases where the procedures are too long and the new feature is completely different from the former, where the new feature launched in collaboration with the health organizations competent in this area, and the user will be able to alert any content helps or encourages suicide through the new property would be incorporated into the site, then the site will then send notices to this person has choices, including communicating with one Friends, as well as assistance by calling a suicide prevention centres.
The new property is still in the experimental phase and will be applied only in theUnited States as the first stage.
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