During Facebook’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg says he wants facebook to build more tools allowing users to help each other. Facebook has already started doing this, Zuckberg says, but he’s urging teams to think of more ways to make to enable it.
After the Nepalese earthquake in April, for example, Facebook activated a feature called Safety Check that allowed people in the area to indicate that they were safe. Millions of people marked themselves as “safe” and more than 100 million people got notifications about their friends and family. Facebook also put a “Donate” button on the top of people’s News Feed after the earthquake and ended up contributing more than $15 million, just from Facebook users.
Facebook also became part of the Amber Alerts system earlier this year, which means that when a child disappears in a users’ area, they’ll see a notification about it at the top of their News Feed. “There’s a lot more stuff like this that we can do,” Zuckerberg said. “We’re in a unique place where we can do these things because of our reach and there’s a real hunger in our community for it………”
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg promised that Facebook would continue to invest in new projects and unveil new investments when it was ready.
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