Facebook's chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg is urging Facebook members (which is the world's biggest social networking site) to share their organ donation status online. Mark Zuckerberg is hoping that this could help aim to spur more donations and to reduce wait times on transplants. As of now, Facebook users can add donation plans onto their profile to say if they are organ donors or not etc. According to Facebook, more than 114,000 people in the U.S. and millions more worldwide are waiting for a life-saving heart, liver or kidney transplant. On average 18 people per day die because there aren't enough organs for transplant. With now people able to say whether or not you are a donor online, Facebook hopes that this can promote and cause more life-saving opportunities.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/facebook-urges-users-to-share-organ-donor-status/2012/05/01/gIQAknVOuT_story.html
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