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Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say

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623 points franzb | 1 comments | 14 Nov 15 00:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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leothekim ◴[14 Nov 15 00:44 UTC] No.10563638[source]▶
Facebook has enabled their safety check feature:

https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/paris_terror_attacks/

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eveningcoffee ◴[14 Nov 15 01:59 UTC] No.10564010[source]▶
What is this?
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jacquesm ◴[14 Nov 15 02:02 UTC] No.10564020[source]▶
A way to let others know you're safe even if you can't get through to them personally.
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Asbostos ◴[14 Nov 15 02:20 UTC] No.10564095[source]▶
Does that have any value beyond reinforcing people's irrational fear of mass deaths? What if you let your family know you're not one of the 100 killed in this attack then die as one of the 600 murdered in France each year by common crime?

I saw this happen with the London bombings. A colleague was almost in tears because her son lived in London and she couldn't contact him on the phone. It turned out he was fine, as approximately everybody else in the city was too.

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ics ◴[14 Nov 15 02:32 UTC] No.10564148[source]▶
There are more [geographical] disasters besides terrorist attacks. Tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. where it's much more likely for broad swathes of people to be affected.
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1. alexqgb ◴[14 Nov 15 06:06 UTC] No.10564693[source]▶
A good friend of mine headed up this project when she was at FB. Natural disasters were exactly what they had in mind. We were in touch earlier this afternoon, and she said this was not a use case they had considered.