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08-30-2016, 04:40 AM
Facebook's Zuckerberg says user control of Safety Check coming
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On Monday, Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped an unexpected piece of news in Italy on a topic currently at the top of the country's collective conscious: safety.*
SEE ALSO: Munich shooter may have used Facebook post to lure victims, police say (http://mashable.com/2016/07/24/munich-shooting-facebook-post/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
During an hour-long question and answer session in Rome, Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook is working on a way to allow users to activate its Safety Check instead of only allowing the company to activate the feature. *
The subject came up after an attendee asked Zuckerberg, "Is [Safety Check] going to change in the future? Will users be able to activate it on their own, perhaps to alert other people?" Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/facebook-safety-check-user-control/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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On Monday, Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dropped an unexpected piece of news in Italy on a topic currently at the top of the country's collective conscious: safety.*
SEE ALSO: Munich shooter may have used Facebook post to lure victims, police say (http://mashable.com/2016/07/24/munich-shooting-facebook-post/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
During an hour-long question and answer session in Rome, Zuckerberg confirmed that Facebook is working on a way to allow users to activate its Safety Check instead of only allowing the company to activate the feature. *
The subject came up after an attendee asked Zuckerberg, "Is [Safety Check] going to change in the future? Will users be able to activate it on their own, perhaps to alert other people?" Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/29/facebook-safety-check-user-control/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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