Preventing Suicide with Natural Language Processing

Let's face it, people are spending more time on social media than ever before. In 2018, around 2.65 billion people were using social media worldwide, a number thought to increase to 3.1 billion by 2021. Mosts posts are harmless depictions of life, like status updates, pictures of friends or food, the occasional meme, etc. etc. We give these posts a like, maybe a comment, then keep on scrolling. But sometimes people post about more personal topics and show signs that things in their life are not going well.