Suicide monitoring, technology companies are trying to

Summary: According to World Health Organization data, in 2012, 800,000 people were killed in suicide, accounting for 1.4% of the world's deaths, ranked 15th in the order of death in 2012. But unlike other forms of death, suicide can be prevented, Facebook, Apple, Google and other tech

According to the World Health Organization, 800,000 people died in 2012, accounting for 1.4% of the world's total deaths, and ranked 15th in the order of death in 2012. But unlike other forms of death, suicide can be prevented, and tech, Facebook, Apple, Google and others, are mostly working on it.

Facebook recently announced that it will launch the function of suicide monitoring, hoping to intervene in a timely manner when the user passes out of a weary mood. The specific approach is similar to the previous filtering of information flow, system analysis of user status and the key words in the article, and then "suspicious" account to the manual analysis. If a direct suicide threat is monitored, Facebook will directly contact people close to the suicides to call local emergency agencies. Facebook has also set up a 7x24-hour online support team to handle feedback from users who have suicidal tendencies.

Prior to that, Facebook had also launched a suicide reporting system, and the users who completed the report would receive advice from National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The Facebook suicide monitoring service was more proactive than it was before, with specific features expected to be launched in the U.S. area in a few months ' time.

In addition to Facebook,the Samaritans's Web Tools Samaritans Radar, it monitors Twitter accounts that contain signs of depression or suicide, such as "depression" and "hate yourself" in tweets. Samaritans Radar is mainly aimed at 18-35-year-old people who regularly update their mental state and mood on social networking sites.

What if people who want to commit suicide do not love to be on the social network? Siri can help too. If the user says to Siri, "I don't Want to live", "I want to kill myself," Siri will automatically show the nearest counseling center, or ask the user if they need to call national suicide prevention Lifeline.

In addition, Google search results can help, if Google search "how to kill themselves?" , the priority is to show the ads of suicide prevention agencies and some persuasive content.

At home, we often see "suicide live" on micro-blogs, according to statistics, the three years of the rise of Weibo, the use of micro-bo "Sun suicide" incident has more than 20. There are lucky to rescue back, but also unfortunate left the world tragedy, Micro learned the praise of Facebook, when also to learn suicide monitoring?

There is also a small worry is, in the technology such as Google,facebook in the era of advertising business, in case you want to commit suicide when the push is will management, cemetery ads do? The issue is also discussed in S04e16, a acquires of the American drama "Suspect tracking", where interested friends can watch.