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Title: Suicide prevention takes a forward step Post by: Alex on October 16, 2009, 05:38:57 AM Suicide prevention takes a forward step
In a move to curb the alarmingly high rate of youth depression and suicide, social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter could be scanned for signs of "at risk" behaviour. Researchers at New Zealand's Victoria University claim to have devised a program that is capable of scanning posts within social networking sites to identify keywords that could indicate that a poster is at risk of depression, self-harm, suicide or even harming others. "Our technology picks up words and phrases such as 'depressed', or 'I don't want to live anymore' or 'I want to kill somebody'", Dr Tiong-Thye Goh said. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/D0aYAmin6U8/suicide-prevention-takes-a-forward-step |