Facebook is adding new tools to its app and website, aimed at providing advice and support to those who may be thinking about suicide.
If a user posts something on Facebook highlighting potential self harm or suicide, and a friend notices and flags the post, Facebook reviews the post and recommends a helpline. That part isn’t new.
What’s new is that the user who posted the original status will now get a response from Facebook offering to connect them with a helpline worker or a friend in addition to that. Facebook would also offer a list of tips on how they can deal with those feelings.
These new suicide-prevention tools will be available to Facebook users in the U.S. before being available abroad in the future.
Facebook created these new measures with input from those who had lived through self-injury or suicide attempts, plus a few mental health organizations to craft its approach to the issue.
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