In cases of natural disasters , such as tsunamis, earthquakes , etc., many people turn to Social Media to check on the safety of their friends or relatives. The Facebook team knows this well , and has improved the “Disaster Message Board” tool and renamed it “ Safety Check ”.
From now on, Facebook will take into account natural disasters around the world and send a notification to users who may have been affected. The most popular social network will utilize the city of residence that users have declared, the last area they were in if they have the “Nearby Friends” option enabled, as well as the city from which they use the internet.
The alert will ask users if they are safe and then notify their friends via a post on the homepage and via a notification. By clicking on the post or notification, users will be able to see various data through the “Safety Check bookmark”, such as how many were affected by the natural disaster, how many declared themselves safe, how many of their friends were affected, etc.
Finally, users will also be able to report the safety of their friends.
Source: socialmedialife.gr
