We can't be normalizing or making it a part of social media, it is not right. It shouldn't be okay to see it on our Facebook timelines as a reminder of the horror that someone else could be living. Why is this happening? Why can't we move on from this kind of violence as a whole?

I have been lucky so far, I haven't found the need to use one of Facebook's newest features, Safety Check. As it is described by Mark Zuckerberg himself, this part of the social media network is their way of "helping the community during natural disasters and give you an easy and simple way to say you’re safe and check on all your friends and family in one place". The sad part, the reason why this whole situation is giving me chills, is because, more often that I would like to see, it is not being used for it's intended purpose, natural disasters, but for man-made catastrophes instead.

Zuckerberg hoped for it to be a tool for peace of mind in a time of distress, but it is giving me (and I'm sure that a lot of other people) a lot to think, accompanied with unease, worry, and sadness for the most part. Out of the 30+ deployments of said tool, given the disasters or attacks that happened in the past two years, over 3/4 of them were man-made attacks. We have been taught as a society to feel short-term empathy or look aside because the images or the facts could be "too gruesome", I think it's time we stare at the problem and finally recognize that tools like Safety Check, while they are very useful, they shouldn't have to exist for attacks that are provoked by one of our own.