Facebook has customized its safety check feature to let users know whether their friends and loved ones are safe in Paris.
More than 140 people have been killed in tragic attacks across several locations in the French capital in the past few hours.
Users in Paris are now being sent notifications by Facebook's mobile app, asking them whether they are safe, and offering to check on any of their friends.
The Facebook 'Safety Check' tool, which can be found here, lets you input whether you are safe or not in the affected area. Users can then also see how other friends and family in an affected area are doing and can mark people as 'safe'.
Your location is determined by the city listed in your profile, you last location if you use the Nearby Friends product or the city where you are using the internet.
Facebook isn't the only technology company to reach out to its users in Paris in the wake of the terror attacks.
Uber used its app to advise users to 'not move unless absolutely necessary.'
Meanwhile, AirBnB sent its customers in Paris an email advising them to stay in place.
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