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Facebook Teams Up With Save.org To Study Suicide Victims’ Activities Prior To Deaths

David Cohen — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:34:57 +0000

Facebook continued its efforts on the suicide-prevention front by teaming up with Save.org (Suicide Awareness Voices of Education) to study suicide victims’ activity on the social network in the days just prior to their deaths.

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UPDATED: Facebook’s Marne Levine Joins Government Leaders In Release Of Suicide Prevention Report

Jennifer Moire — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:48:33 +0000

Facebook is continuing its ongoing efforts to combat bullying and address other public safety issues, with a high-ranking executive joining a panel of government and private-sector leaders in the release of a long-awaited report addressing suicide prevention.

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Student Suspended For Fake Suicide On Facebook

Julie D. Andrews — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:35:01 +0000

A high school student who created a fake Facebook page and video of a fictitious girl who was bullied on her Facebook page and commits suicide was suspended from school for five days.

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3 Tips for Being A Responsible Facebook Friend

Guest Blogger — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:39:00 +0000

With the ever increasing presence of cyber bullying, a growing number of suicidal status updates, it’s important that we understand potential online warning signs and how to react to them.

Here are three ways to make sure you are being a responsible Facebook friend.

Pay Attention Offline

It’s important to keep an eye out for any warning signs indicating your friend or family member might be depressed.

Providing an open, comfortable and empathic environment is key, both online and off. Be a good listener and encourage others to do the same.

Once they have support in their every day life, they may not need to turn to Facebook to bolster or hinder their self-esteem or to purge sad and hateful messages.

If they’re closing themselves off to you in person, the next best place to see how they’re feeling is on Facebook.

Watch For Changes In Online Behavior

If a friend of yours is utilizing Facebook in a way that is uncharacteristic of them — posting a lot of statuses that seem out of the ordinary, or dropping off the face of the Internet world when generally they’re very active – this could be a warning sign.

Keep an eye on the content they’re posting and reach out to them directly, or report the content if you’re concerned by their online presence or absence. This has recently been made even easier for all ages with counseling services now available on Facebook.

Don’t Cry Wolf or Assume Others Are

In the highly publicized case of Simone Back, only one of her 1,082 Facebook friends took her plea for help seriously. If more had, perhaps the outcome would’ve been different.

It’s imperative that if you see a status implying the poster might do harm to him or herself, you report it immediately by clicking the report link and filling out this form.

When you do, an email is sent to the Facebook user who posted the content, encouraging him or her to contact a distress hotline via phone or the new instant messaging chat, which is even faster.

In addition, carefully screen your own online content, and encourage your children and teens to do the same: Avoiding overly morbid sarcasm and dark humor that might be desensitizing or seriously worry those reading it.

If you see any kind of activity online that might require someone to use the new service, take action immediately by reaching out directly to the user and reporting the activity.

Guest writer Sarah Beauchamp is a freelance blogger.

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Facebook Initiative Aims To Help Prevent Suicide

David Cohen — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:58:36 +0000

Facebook is doing its part to help prevent suicide, enabling users who see possible suicidal thoughts on their friends’ pages to report it to the social network by clicking on a link, after which the social network will email the friends and encourage them to call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or engage in live chats with crisis counselors.

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Facebook Posting Saves PA Man From Suicide Attempt

Ruth Manuel-Logan — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:12:33 +0000

An unidentified Uniontown, Pennyslvania resident posted a status update Saturday night that he had “wanted to end it all.” A Facebook friend in California read that and alerted local area police about his contact’s intentions.
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N.Y. Mom Left Suicide Note On Facebook

Ruth Manuel-Logan — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:19:33 +0000

LaShonda Armstrong, the New York mother who drove her minivan into the Hudson River Tuesday killing herself and three of her four children, managed to first update a posting on her Facebook account.
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Facebook And Samaritans Aim To Prevent Suicides

Jorge Cino — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:35:46 +0000

The U.K. suicide hotline Samaritans has teamed up with Facebook to better help people in the U.K. and Ireland who may be feeling suicidal or severely depressed.
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Return Of Gay Teen Suicide Over Facebook Taunts?

Jackie Cohen — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:32:06 +0000

It saddens me to have to write about two teenagers committing suicide within a couple of weeks, both of them from Monroe Woodbury High School in Orange Country, New York, and at least one who had been taunted on Facebook because of his alleged sexual orientation. Unfortunately, neither teen has the ability to confirm nor deny whether bullying of any kind led to their personal tragedy. The bigger picture here: high school students continue to post insults on the social network riffing on whether or not their classmates are heterosexual; this fall’s effort to combat homophobia on social media by raising awareness was a lovely start, but we hope such endeavors will continue.
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U.K. Woman Announced Suicide On Facebook

Brian Ward — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:00:24 +0000

A couple months ago, a story filled my hometown news media outlets about a young man, Tyler Clementi, who had announced he was going to take his life on his Facebook profile. A simple message left on his page read, “Jumping off the gw bridge sorry.” It was a heartbreaking story that left everybody in shock as 450 of his friends on the social network read the status update, and nobody was able to prevent the tragedy.
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Facebook Saves Users From Another Facebook Profile Killer

Nick O'Neill — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:30:23 +0000

Last week we covered the news that Facebook had shut down Seppukoo, a service which enables users to automate the process of deleting their profile. This week Facebook has done it again, by shutting down the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. The service functions similarly to Seppukoo, and is part of an increasing number of products which enable users to commit digital suicide.
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