Yes, Facebook, I am safe – no thanks for asking | Tim Burrows

Facebook turned on Safety Check during the Westminster attack. In telling friends you are ‘not marked as safe’, is it providing another avenue for fear?This morning, after reading the latest news updates about the terror attack on Westminster, I fired up Facebook. There I was met with an atypical request: a friend who lives an eight-hour flight away in Canada had asked me to mark myself “safe”.Clicking on the notification took me to Facebook’s Safety Check page, whi