Facebook adds Samaritans suicide risk alert system

Please don't be abused....<p>Please don't be abused....<p>Please oh please oh please don't be abused.<p>Please, ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend with a facebook password, avoid the temptation to post a fake suicide note and then report using someone else's account.<p>Or middle schoolers who think this would be a funny practical joke.<p>Ever had a sinking feeling?

This makes Facebook seem more creepy. To me and anyone already concerned they have to much user information.<p>One alternative would be to have Facebook sponsor a new independent local charity to do exactly this. People can relate to a local charity, they can't relate to Facebook.

I find it funny that they never bother to explain what or who are the Samaritans. It's probably a charity but I like to imagine they're talking about the <i>real</i> Samaritans:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritan</a>

I would rather see an alert system to alarm the police when facebook is caught selling my information to 3rd parties.

Three Facebook stories on the front page of HN at the moment. The rot is in for sure. For a second, I thought I was reading TechCrunch.