Facebook improves its suicide help service

Facebook has long been involved in suicide prevention. The social network has dedicated a lot of effort in this battle. Now they are announcing a series of improvements to their suicide relief service. In this way, they will be able to fight this problem more effectively. Prevention will now be more proactive.

Facebook improves its suicide help service

The social network is an expert in segmenting advertising among the different segments of the public present in it. Depending on our tastes or personality. So Facebook also has the ability to identify people who want to self-injure or commit suicide. It does this thanks to a direct help team dedicated to identifying risk patterns in order to offer first-person help.

Facebook fights suicide

The social network has been dedicated to avoiding suicide for 10 years. Since the way in which users communicate on Facebook is open, on many occasions it is possible to know if a person is emotionally stable or is having problems. This is where these new changes on Facebook begin. Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, patterns will be located that invite you to think about suicide.

Whether through posts, likes, videos or attitudes. In this way, the social network hopes to be able to give direct help to that user. This proactive detection of the social network expands outside the United States. Although at the moment it will not reach Europe.

Suicide and self injury detection is available in status updates. In addition, other users can notify the social network if they believe that another user is about or thinking of committing suicide. What do you think of this social network service?