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PeFacebook is rolling out a new feature across the UK to help users who feel suicidal.
The Suicide Prevention tool has been developed in connection with the Samaritans.
It aims to try and provide advice and support for those struggling to cope, as well as for their friends and family.
People can now report posts they are worried about in a more direct way.
Versions of the tool were launched in the US a year ago and in Australia in December.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35608276/facebook-adds-new-suicide-prevention-tool-in-the-uk
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I'm GLAD I remembered to XEROX all my UNDERSHIRTS!!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2016, @07:48AM
Hi, I'm Likey, and I Like(TM) You!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2016, @08:45AM
Can't help but think that we have crossed over from Soylent to Brave New World, which is a much darker place. But we have always been at war with EastAsia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 22 2016, @04:27AM
more like the B.I.O.N.I.C. phase of Pump Up The Volume
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2016, @09:26AM
Exactly. Stasi was just the anti-depression department of the East Germany...
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2016, @09:39AM
It's a sad state of reality, when a cynic joke turns out to be real, mate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia/ [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2016, @10:49AM
Sounds pretty "Ray Bradbury" to me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2016, @11:23AM
Perhaps Likey could be a bit more like Clippy.
"It looks like you're trying to kill yourself. Would you like some help with that?"
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday February 21 2016, @11:44AM
It's hard to tell which is worse, Likey or Clippy. I suspect that either one would make me MORE suicidal.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gravis on Sunday February 21 2016, @12:17PM
The Suicide Prevention tool has been developed in connection with the Samaritans.
IT'S LIES! those lying bastards aren't from Samaria, they just care about people! JERKS! (＃｀д´)ﾉ
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2016, @12:24PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rywVlfTtlMY/ [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 21 2016, @09:15PM
Last year my son's class at school (he was 5 years old) were told the story of the Good Samaritan. After he recounted the story to me I asked him what the message in the story was. "If you're a priest you don't have to help people."