Facebook activated its safety check
feature for the second time in less than
a week after at least 32 people died in
a bombing in yola in northeastern
Nigeria the response to the tragedy is a
new policy at Facebook which until
Friday's attacks in Paris only use
safety check during natural disasters
safety check sends facebook users alerts
if they're in an area affected by
disaster and lets them flag themselves
or their contacts as safe so their
network of friends knows they're in the
clear but facebook says safety check was
never designed for the open-end nature
of violent attacks during an ongoing
crisis like war or epidemic safety check
in its current form is not that useful
for people because there isn't a clear
start or end point and unfortunately
it's impossible to know when someone is
truly safe so to sum the decision to
activate safety check in Paris seemed
arbitrary why wasn't it activated the
day before the Paris attacks for the
suicide bombings in Beirut that killed
at least 43 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
said the Paris events were the catalyst
for this new policy and advents Facebook
can't and won't be able to bring safety
check to bear for every crisis that said
Facebook now plans to deploy safety
check wherever and whenever it's
expected to help for an easy I'm Lea
becerra