Facebook has introduced updated tools and educational resources to help and support the people who are having the suicidal tendency.
Designed especially for India, Facebook is launching a tool that will support and educate the people who are with suicide thoughts. The company has taken this step seeing the popularity of the social media site in the country. The youth has the craze of sharing everything in the FB and the trend of likes and shares are a just peak of the stage.
This tool is developed with the help and inputs from the people who have already attempted a suicide or self-injured. In India, the tool is designed in collaboration with the Mental Health Organizations. The tool is being rolled out with the help of the organisations like AASRA and The Live Love Laugh Foundation both in Hindi and English languages.
The tool will help in reaching the friend who has posted a message in grief or in a disturbed mentality.
As per the FB India, South and Central Asia’s public Policy Director, Mr Ankhi Das, the people who are suffering from depression, mental illness and the suicidal tendency will get help from this tool.
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Live Love Laugh Foundation Founder Deepika Padukone has stated that the rate of suicides amongst the youth in India is one of the highest in the world. To reduce and almost ify this the FB tool will be useful. According to her, this is the reason why she is for the promotion of the tool.
AASRa Director Johnson Thomas also expressed the opinion that the latest FB tool will help out in decreasing the Suicide rates in India. In order to help for the same, AASRA has collaborated with FB’s tool.