• Facebook adds suicide help system
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...I'm gonna report Mark Zuckerberg.
[QUOTE=STeel;28498770]I don't see how would it prevent someone from doing it anyway.[/QUOTE] Because if they happened to post something suicidal on facebook, and got reported using this, then it's possible that the police would be able to step it and stop it from happening. Unlikely; yes. Possible? Also a yes.
[QUOTE=Chris220;28505217]Because if they happened to post something suicidal on facebook, and got reported using this, then it's possible that the police would be able to step it and stop it from happening. Unlikely; yes. Possible? Also a yes.[/QUOTE] Well yeah I guess, but it depends on how serious the person is about suicide anyway. I guess it can somehow help people who are on the edge of deciding whether they really want to kill themselves or not. If someone truly wants to die, even if the entire police force of his city was on his doorstep, they won't be able to prevent it.
You're wrong with that last point, many suicides have been prevented through police intervention. All I'm saying is that if someone IS stopped from committing suicide, and it was done using this facebook suicide thing, it will have been worth all the abuse.
[QUOTE=Chris220;28509258]You're wrong with that last point, many suicides have been prevented through police intervention. All I'm saying is that if someone IS stopped from committing suicide, and it was done using this facebook suicide thing, it will have been worth all the abuse.[/QUOTE] Indeed saving life would be worth the abuse. Question is, how quickly they will give up due to the large abuse amount. And I disagree about my point being invalid. If someone truly wants to die, and perhaps he did post about it on Facebook for some reason, and hell, the police did come to his house, he might as well slit his throat and until they break in he's already dead. There's about enough ways to cease from living for someone who really wishes for it. Giving another thought to the idea, it might not be so bad, considering the ever so increasing popularity of Facebook among teenagers, most of whom are unaware of the meaning of suicide prevention, and this just might increase that awareness. And also it might be more effective than just calling the police, because I can see how calling your local police department telling them "Someone threatens to kill himself" and upon being asked how do you know you answer: "He posted something suicidal on Facebook", might just make them laugh at you and not take the matter seriously. But again, I can see how this system will be widely abused, or people being taken too seriously for their posts getting reported, and ask: Just how quickly they will give the idea up.
So many people just say they are going to kill them self. Its the people who don't say anything that do it.
[QUOTE=Pako;28476455][url]http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363[/url][/QUOTE] Welp looks like it's time for a new pair of pants.
[QUOTE=Pako;28476455][url]http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363[/url][/QUOTE] waiiit oh nevermind
[QUOTE=Pako;28476455][url]http://facebook.com/profile.php?=73322363[/url][/QUOTE] Last time I checked it wasn't 2 years ago
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