Business Insider - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants the the social network to build more tools that allow its users to help each other, he said during Facebook's annual shareholders' meeting on Thursday. Facebook has already started doing this, Zuckberg says, but he's urging teams to think of more ways to make to enable it. After the Nepalese earthquake in April, for example, Facebook activated a feature called Safety Check that allowed people in the area to indicate that they were safe. Facebook technically built the tool back in October, but this natural disaster was its largest deployment to-date: Millions of people marked themselves as "safe" and more than 100 million people got notifications about their friends and family. Facebook also put a "Donate" button on the top of people's News Feed after the earthquake and users ended up contributing more than $15 million. "That's more than most governments around the world contributed," Zuckerberg said, "And just from Facebook
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