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# Facebook adds suicide prevention.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/facebook-attempting-to-increase-user-safety-by-adding-su/
- Published: 2011-12-15T21:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:28:32.000Z
- Description: A new Huffington Post article states that Facebook is launching a new effort to assist with suicide prevention. The article reports: If a friend spots a suicidal thought on someone’s page, he can report it to Facebook by clicking a link next to the comment. Facebook then sends an email to the person
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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A new *Huffington Post* article states that Facebook is launching a new effort to assist with suicide prevention. The article reports:

> If a friend spots a suicidal thought on someone’s page, he can report it to Facebook by clicking a link next to the comment. Facebook then sends an email to the person who posted the comment encouraging that user to call the hotline or click a link for a confidential chat.

Our own Jason Johnson wrote about elements of suicide prevention in Japanese games in *Kill Screen* Issue #3\. Perhaps new forms of social gaming can be geared toward alleviating social and psychological distress.

–*Yannick LeJacq*

\[via *[Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/facebook-national-suicide-prevention-lifeline%5Fn%5F1145565.html?ref=technology)*\]