People Are Using Social Media to Find Safety and Loved Ones Amidst Paris Attacks

In light of tonight's Paris attacks, Facebook turned on its Safety Check feature released earlier this year. The feature allows users to notify their followers that they are safe and unharmed during times of crisis or disaster, and users can also identify friends as being safe, too.

To use, simply go to the Facebook Safety page to mark yourself or a friend as being safe during a crisis. A notification will then appear in the News Feeds of all your followers, letting them know you are unharmed. In a worrisome situation like tonight's attacks, it has been a simple one-step process that individuals have been using to calm the minds of all their loved ones.