48 year old Shane Tusch, a part time electrician from San Mateo, California has been arrested and put in a psychiatric institution for nearly three days for posting a hoax suicide threat onto Facebook. In this post, he threatened to hang himself from the Golden Gate Bridge and he claims to have done this in order to test Facebook's revamped suicide prevention programme.
As a result of doing this, a Facebook user who is "almost a complete stranger" to Shane flagged his post and alerted the police who then went on to arrest him. He quotes that he was denied "any humane care" and that "Facebook needs to leave suicide prevention to family and friends. There are no checks and balances! I was only proving a point that Facebook should not be involved in this..."
How I feel about the news story:
I personally feel that Shane Tusch only had good intentions but probably went too far when posting the status because it clearly caused un-necessary panic within other people and the police. Additionally, Facebook are only trying to make things better by having the suicide prevention feature because it can potentially save lives however, there is still the risk of people not taking it seriously or carrying out similar actions to what Shane has done.
I got this information from BBC News.
This video gives an insight into the Facebook suicide prevention
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