Facebook’s “Safety Check” tool, which lets users mark themselves as safe after a disaster or crisis, has been updated.

Safety Check was originally created to facilitate an existing user behavior on the social network. Facebook saw users turn to the social network to tell family and friends they were safe after disasters, such as the 2011 Japan tsunami, and created Safety Check in 2014. Facebook added the Community Help tool after observing the immense effort NGOs, communities and other organizations invested into sorting Facebook posts after a crisis to match people who could help one another and track people’s needs. Facebook saw that organizations often used Groups or documents to organize posts from the social network, but that the process was timely and redundant. To design the tool, Facebook did research interviews with people who had experienced a crisis to understand at which points they needed help in the wake of a disaster and what type of help they needed.

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