People always try to get connected with their loved ones through social media during emergencies to know if they are fine or if they need any help. However, they always struggle to find the right aid on the internet but now Facebook introduces a new feature for these important situations.

According to ABC News, Facebook has come up with a new safety feature in which people stuck in natural calamities or any kind of emergency situation can find help on the social media itself. This new feature is for both people offering help and people looking for help.

This new tool named "community help" is an add-on feature to the earlier Facebook safety check feature that lets people mark themselves as safe during emergencies or disaster. Erie TV News reported that this feature enables users to form a community offline response.

People in an emergency can mark themselves safe and then visit community help page to see what help people are demanding or offering at that time. This community help has "10" different aid categories in itself like food, shelter, transportation, and supplies etc.

One more feature this "community help" has that people can share their experience that whether they have received help or not. "Community help" will also prevent users under 18 or accounts which are recently created from requesting for help or offering help.

This feature will be launched in few countries only i.e U.S., Australia, Canada, India and New Zealand. Facebook is planning to expand this feature to more countries in near future.

Thus Facebook aims to help people across the world with necessary aid in the time of disaster or emergencies from the people nearby. Facebook is adding up new features which can not only let people socialize but also get help from others when in an emergency.

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