Facebook Now Lets You Log Your Safety After Natural Disasters

There ’s a growing drift of societal media being used in the aftermath of natural disasters for data sharing — but Facebook is now working to formalize it . It ’s launched a service which let masses toregister themselves as safewhen heavy - ordered series catastrophe occur .

The fresh feature , calledSafety Check , place users a pushing presentment if a natural disaster happens in the area they list as their current location . It ask them if they ’re fine , and they can either checker in as being dependable or enjoin Facebook they ’re not actually in the region . Other users can see a lean of their Facebook friends in the region , and whether they ’re registered themselves as being safe or not . Facebook will work with local authorities and experts to cypher out what counts as a disaster , on a case - by - type basis .

It ’s a simple tool , but an effective one — far more effective than trust on status update to ensure that a tenacious leaning of citizenry are safe . For those with privacy concerns , it ’s good to see that only champion will see the safety machine update , too . allow ’s just hope the feature does n’t have to be used very often . [ Facebook ]