Nowadays, almost all people use SNS to share their daily life with many users. So, when people feel so tired or depressed, they express their emotion through their SNS. When this emotion stays longer and appears in their posts often, it can be a signal that the user is in danger. This signal is often ignored, but now, the Facebook system can cognize users' emotional state, and they can help them.

▲ Facebook Program

Facebook said they developed proactive detection on November 27, 2017. Until now, some users commit suicide on their Facebook live streaming. So, Facebook decided to make a suicidal prevention program. This program can spot suicidal signs like pattern recognition technology in the user's article, and they can give help to the user.

▲ Facebook`s development

Before this artificial intelligence program, a user's friend or close people should report personally. However, this way is not so fast, and many friends thought it is not a serious problem and just ignored their friend's gloomy posts. In contrast, proactive detection can catch a little detail and send information to the user and also his close people to prevent a suicide. Before, Facebook did not regulate contents about suicide, and they got many criticisms. On May 2016, one man burned himself to death on his live streaming on Facebook, and many people were in shock. However, after proactive detection is developed, things like this tragic event will not happen.

This program was already tested in America. Last month, this AI program checked 100 tasks about suicide already. Furthermore, AI program recognizes dangerous users, and when a user does a live streaming, an agent will go to his place. This program started recently, but it has been showing a great result until now.

▲ Facebook Live Streaming

Suicide rates are increasing in many countries these days. Suicide is a serious problem worldwide. We have to try to solve this serious problem immediately. Not only Facebook but also various SNS should start to develop this program. Facebook's AI program can be a big help to people because Facebook users are beyond number to count. Facebook's little help can save many lives.

Dec 9, 2017 by 신지원