Facebook has activated Safety Check again, this
time in the city of Yola, located in north-eastern
Nigeria, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on his
official account this morning.
The feature activation follows last night's bombing of
a market in the city, which killed at least 32 people
and injured dozens more, according to Al Jazeera.
Zuckerberg had previously announced that Facebook
would expand the use of Safety Check, after the social
network received criticism over its decision to
implement the service following last week's Paris
terror attacks.
"After the Paris attacks last week, we made the
decision to use Safety Check for more tragic events
like this going forward. We're now working quickly to
develop criteria for the new policy and determine
when and how this service can be most useful,"
Zuckerberg said in his Facebook post.
"Unfortunately, these kinds of events are all too
common, so I won't post about all of them. A loss of
human life anywhere is a tragedy, and we're
committed to doing our part to help people in more of
these situations."
Safety Check is still in its early days, and was first
rolled out in October last year. It allows Facebook
users to ‘check in' as safe if they are in an area
experiencing a disaster. Once someone has checked in
as safe, their friends are given a notification saying
that the user is safe. It has only been activated a
handful of times since it was launched as, previously,
it was reserved only for natural disasters.
In his post about activating Safety Check in Nigeria,
Zuckerberg offered words of encouragement to his
followers, explaining that while the frequency of these
terror events is alarming, violence, on the whole, is
declining.
"In times like this, it's important to remind ourselves
that despite the alarming frequency of these terrible
events, violence is actually at an all-time low in
history and continues to decline," he said.
"Deaths from war are lower than ever, murder rates
are generally dropping around the world, and -
although it's hard to believe - even terrorist attacks
are declining. Please don't let a small minority of
extremists make you pessimistic about our future."
http://www.itp.net/mobile/605540-facebook-activates-safety-check-in-nigeria-following-market-bombing

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End time safety check

Twitter should sue for infringements. Twitter was founded as a personal daily ping between associates. When anyone member is not heard from it raises flags about his/her safety and triggers search efforts.

In activation of its safety check, Facebook has taken from an intellectual property belonging to twitter.