People worried that their Facebook friends are suicidal will be able to alert the Samaritans via the social networking site.
It comes after the friends and family of a Brighton woman who announced on Facebook that she would be taking her own life demanded to know why no-one helped her.
Simone Back, 42, was pronounced dead in hospital on Boxing Day less than 24 hours after threatening on the website to take an overdose.
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