Facebook and Organ Transplantation

Firstly, this venture is a new attempt to use social networking Web sites as a new form of media in the field of organ transplantation. All other forms of media such as print, television, radio, etc. have been used and exhausted for making people aware of the importance of becoming organ donors. However, with the Internet becoming a significant extension of people’s lives today, it has still remained an untapped territory in organ transplantation until now. The social networking site, Facebook, connects people across the globe through various posts and wall messages. Facebook has more than 526 million daily users around the world [1]. It is obvious that with this huge membership, it is a definite fertile ground for initiating an action plan on something that should reach billions of people at the click of a mouse.