Social networks are extensions of the human being, because in them individuals socialize, presume, appear, coexist, inform, communicate, share, intervene, collaborate, bother each other, insult themselves, among many other things.
Strangely, we can have a great notion of the characteristics of a user through what he publishes. We can even know him thoroughly, even though he has never seen him in person. The things that we publish in our social networks will always speak of us and we will always be denoting different messages for people who follow us and who are aware of what we do.
There are users who use their social networks to share their mood, or there are those who decide not to publish anything at all. The fact is that we like it or not, we will always be sending a message to our receivers.
For this reason, Facebook decided to integrate new tools to support people in real time on Facebook Live, since there have been hundreds of cases in which users announce possible suicides, or worse, they record themselves and share With the other Facebook community. Sometimes, users do not explicitly mention that they will commit suicide, but they do post various aspects that could be interpreted that way.
In order to help, the social network will begin to offer an escort service in cases that are reported as potential suicides. You would not expect less, because Facebook has become the main space of socialization, that is, users no longer see the platform as a means of entertainment or fashion.
Therefore, Facebook is forced to worry about something that before perhaps only competed to the authorities. Since the social network incorporated its section of videos live, we have seen that some of the users have used this function to record suicides and share them to others.
As live recording involves great risks, the social network is working on the detection of potentially suicidal behaviors through algorithms that automatically identify certain patterns that help determine danger signs before the suicide takes place.
The proposal of Facebook sounds a bit complicated because hardly an algorithm could detect possible signals in real time, in addition to that the users would look for all type of strategy to evade and to disguise suspicious behaviors.
In addition, people who are watching the live video, may report or contact the person directly.
Another idea that Facebook has to help is to offer the user resources to facilitate contact with close friends, or with people who could provide advice to combat depression. All this will happen through Facebook Messenger.
Facebook faces a great challenge, because any negligent act, could change the direction of the social network.
If you notice suspicious attitudes of a user, Facebook suggests that you report it. All you have to do is access this link, enter the name of the person in question, the link of the content that alludes to suicide and a screenshot.
