It's a little bit annoying though. Friends and others living in random parts of the world are marking themselves safe. Not all of them are narcissistic, so I wonder if the feature is not very intuitive?
Not taking away how useful it is though. Even with all the noise it was reassuring to know friends in the tremor area (which included a large part of North India) were safe.
I haven't noticed much abuse. I lived in Nepal for a couple years and have a lot of friends still there. It was nice to see all of them marking themselves as safe versus the random display of facebook status updates saying they were ok. Dont know whose update I saw or didn't see.
Not taking away how useful it is though. Even with all the noise it was reassuring to know friends in the tremor area (which included a large part of North India) were safe.