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Facebook has changed its safety check feature to have a specific Paris focus following the terrorist attacks on the French capital. | Facebook has changed its safety check feature to have a specific Paris focus following the terrorist attacks on the French capital. |
If the social media app notices a user's device is located in Paris, it will ask them whether they are safe. | If the social media app notices a user's device is located in Paris, it will ask them whether they are safe. |
The "Safety Check" tool will then notify all the friends of that person that they have marked themselves alive. | The "Safety Check" tool will then notify all the friends of that person that they have marked themselves alive. |
Users can also check on a list of friends who may be caught up in the tragedy which unfolded in Paris on Friday night, followed by The Independent live blog here. | Users can also check on a list of friends who may be caught up in the tragedy which unfolded in Paris on Friday night, followed by The Independent live blog here. |
Location is determined by the city in which a person uses internet, the city listed in their profile or their last location if they use the Nearby Friends product. | Location is determined by the city in which a person uses internet, the city listed in their profile or their last location if they use the Nearby Friends product. |
If someone is not in the Paris area, they can select "I'm not in the area." | If someone is not in the Paris area, they can select "I'm not in the area." |
Twitter followers based in the capital also offered safe refuge to fellow citizens with the hash tag #PorteOuverte, inviting those too afraid to make longer journeys home to stay with them. | Twitter followers based in the capital also offered safe refuge to fellow citizens with the hash tag #PorteOuverte, inviting those too afraid to make longer journeys home to stay with them. |
The death toll from the attacks, now claimed by radical Islamist terror group Isis, is believed to be more than 120. | The death toll from the attacks, now claimed by radical Islamist terror group Isis, is believed to be more than 120. |
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