Facebook employed its Safety Check feature—which lets users inform their loved ones that they are safe in time of a significant crisis—for the first time in the U.S during this weekend's mass shooting in Orlando. Following Sunday morning's act of terror inside gay nightclub Pulse that killed 50 and wounded another 53 people, the social network's users in the central Florida city were able to use the tool to reach out to friends and family.
Facebook initially rolled out Safety Check in 2011 during a tsunami and nuclear disaster in Tokyo, and the feature has also been utilized during earthquakes in places like Chili and Nepal.
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