Zuckerberg wants more Facebook tools for users to help each otherJune 12, 2015 - 10:08 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants the social network to build more tools that allow its users to help each other, he said during Facebook's annual shareholders' meeting on Thursday, June 11, according to Business Insider. Facebook has already started doing this, Zuckberg says, but he's urging teams to think of more ways to make to enable it. After the Nepalese earthquake in April, for example, Facebook activated a feature called Safety Check that allowed people in the area to indicate that they were safe. Facebook technically built the tool back in October, but this natural disaster was its largest deployment to-date: Millions of people marked themselves as "safe" and more than 100 million people got notifications about their friends and family. Facebook also put a "Donate" button on the top of people's News Feed after the earthquake and users ended up contributing more than $15 million. "That's more than most governments around the world contributed," Zuckerberg said, "And just from Facebook users." Facebook also became part of the Amber Alerts system earlier this year, which means that when a child disappears in a users' area, they'll see a notification about it at the top of their News Feed. At least one child has been found thanks to the integration so far, Zuckerberg said. "There’s a lot more stuff like this that we can do," Zuckerberg said. "We’re in a unique place where we can do these things because of our reach and there’s a real hunger in our community for it. I’m really excited about enabling more of this and proud that we can be part of it." Zuckerberg's answer came after a shareholder asked him what the company wished it was working on that it wasn't. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg initially whisked the question away. "That’s a hard question to answer," she said. "The things we’re not working on but want to work on are things that we might work on in the future. But if we say that we wish we were working on them, then other people might start working on them." Zuckerberg's answer, which danced around the question without giving anything away, came after Sandberg promised that Facebook would continue to invest in new projects and unveil new investments when it was ready. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Titus, Bilirakis lead legislation to sanction Azerbaijani war criminals Representatives Dina Titus (D-NV) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) have introduced the bipartisan legislation. Azerbaijan must respect human rights, Scholz tells Aliyev German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for greater respect for human rights in Azerbaijan. Armenia: Defense Ministry warns against involving army in political processes The Ministry’s statement came after a video surfaced online, showing soldiers joining the protests in Tavush. Scholz hopes Armenia-Azerbaijan peace treaty will be signed this year German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed this year. |