Safety Check is one of the new features Facebook has been testing for a little over a year. This function that It is only activated when a terrorist attack or natural disaster occurs, send messages to all users of the social network who have connected in the last hours from the country or town affected by the attack or natural disaster. In this way, users only have to reply to the message if they are well so that all our friends on the network automatically receive a message and remain calm.
I have to admit that I am very critical of the social network for the treatment it does with our data, but yesI have always recognized that Safety Check is a very important function for these types of occasions.. Unfortunately last night, after finishing the fireworks that were being launched in Nice to celebrate Bastille Day, the driver of a truck ran over 90 kilometers by now a large number of people leaving more than 80 dead and a large number of wounded.
In these last three months, Facebook has been forced to put this service into operation, always due to human causes and not natural disasters. Just over a month ago, a nightclub in Orlando saw 49 people die inside it from the gunshots of one person. A week ago at the Istanbul airport another 45 people lost their lives in another attack related to the Islamic State.
However Facebook is not the only company that offers a service of this typeSince Twitter also makes a hashtag available to users so that any family member or friend can post a photo of their relatives so that someone can confirm that they are safe. Google also has Google Finder, to locate our acquaintances in this type of event.