The Safety Check page also displayed a list of friends attacks-5905/”>in Paris, so users could see at a glance if they knew anyone who might be in the area affected by the attacks.
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Facebook’s “safety check” feature was widely used in Paris as attacks killed at least 149 people Friday night.
Facebook rolled out the feature in October of 2014 citing the 2011 natural disaster in Japan as the major inspiration for creating the tool.
On the Paris terrorist attacks, he says Facebook activated the tool because they “observed a lot of activity on Facebook as the events were unfolding”.
“Communication is critical in these moments both for people there and for their friends and families anxious for news”, the statement said. From Facebook, the notifications told us that friends and loved ones were safe.
Elsewhere, Uber has also announced it has suspended its service in Paris. “My thoughts are with everyone in Paris tonight”, he wrote, “violence like this has no place in any city or country in the world”.
PEOPLE now have the option of putting a filter over their Facebook profile photo to show their support for France. So we made the decision to try something we’ve never done before: activating Safety Check for something other than a natural disaster.
The social network’s “Safety Check” tool here asks users if they are in the affected area and enables them to “mark” themselves as “safe”. The hashtag #PorteOuverte (open door) gave shelter to Parisians who needed it. Twitter reported the hashtag produced one million tweets in just 10 hours. Safety Check was first launched during the nuclear disaster in Tokyo following the tsunami in 2011.
On Friday night Twitter provided important information to help the people of Paris get to safe places.
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Later on the evening of November 13, Facebook activated “Safety Check”. Below each picture, a message from Facebook appeared: “Change your profile picture to support France and the people of Paris”.
