User tested Facebook anti-suicide and ended up in a psychiatric hospital for three days

    Somebody Shane Tusk (Shane Tusch), making a living as an electrician, he decided to check how the system of informing about a possible suicide to Facebook. As a result, he spent 72 hours in a psychiatric hospital “in inhuman conditions,” as he himself wrote later on his page on the social network.

    In 2011, Facebook was launched for US users.special suicide reporting system. If a friend on a social network shares his disturbing thoughts with someone in a private message, the recipient can send a message about this to a special social network service. They will examine the message and send a special notice to the potential suicide. It will tell you that someone is worried about the state of the user and offer him help:

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    As options, they will offer to contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline consultants, talk with a friend or read Facebook tips for overcoming suicidal moods.

    Shane Tusk decided to check how this system works. He posted a message saying that he intended to hang himself publicly on the Golden Bridge. He explained his deed by problems with a bank loan and said that “the bank killed him and left his wife and children without a father and without a home”:

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    Someone from Tusk’s friends reported on his dubious plans on Facebook. After some time, the initiative electrician got into the police, where he had to explain what he really had in mind and that he was not going to commit suicide. The officers were probably skeptical of Tusk's stories, and as a result he ended up in a psychiatric hospital for 72 hours. There he had to undergo many clinical tests, to pass tests for tuberculosis, AIDS and other diseases. The conditions of detention Tusk described as "inhuman."

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