Facebook Enhances Its Suicide Prevention Outreach, Adds Services For Vets And Military Personnel
Facebook’s role as a social network for close to one billion people can be a weighty responsibility, and today the company took one more step in the kind of social outreach activities that befit a company with that kind of audience. It has formed a new partnership with Blue Star Families and the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a special set of services aimed at vets and other military personnel, to help prevent suicide. Engineers at Facebook have developed a special solution, the company says, that will be able...
Published By: Tech Crunch - Wednesday, 9 May, 2012
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