Please Stop Marking Yourself Safe On Facebook

Jon Evans, TechCrunch
Sun, 02/17/2019 - 7:00am

Let me begin by saying that Facebook’s Crisis Response pages do a lot of good. They are a locus for donations and offers of help. But that said, for the love of humanity, when something bad happens, please stop marking yourself safe on Facebook. They don’t mean to prey on our anxieties.

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