Latest thing to share on Facebook? Your organs
NEW YORK (AP) - Facebook wants to help you share your organs.
Users in the United States and the U.K. can enroll as organ donors via links to official registries on the world's biggest social networking site, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The links should make it easier for people who want to donate their organs to sign up.
Facebook users who are already organ donors can add that information to their profile page, now known as their timeline.
Zuckerberg said his friendship with Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who had received a liver transplant before he died last year, helped spur the idea, as did talks with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan, a medical student. More than 112,000 Americans are waiting for organs and 18 people die every day from the lack of available organs, according to Donate Life America, a nonprofit that is teaming with Facebook. Zuckerberg announced the organ donor update to Facebook on "Good Morning America" Tuesday.
Facebook Inc., based in Menlo Park, Calif., is busy readying an initial public stock offering said to be pegged at $5 billion. Facebook's IPO could place the company's value at $100 billion.
Go to your Timeline
Click on "Life Event"
Select "Health and Wellness" and
Choose "Organ Donor"
You can add where and when you registered here.
Add your personal story.
If you have not officially registered with your local authority you can:
Select the link “Officially Register” from the right hand side of the dialog box.
A new tab will open with instructions on how to officially register.
Privacy Settings:
Remember you can always control who you share your donor status with.
To select who can see your donor status, click on the "Privacy Control."
You can make it public or limit it to just a small group of friends or just family.
When you are done:
Select "Save."Your organ donor status will appear both on your Timeline and in your "About" section.
Other Useful Information:
If a friend has added their donor status to their Timeline, you may see it in your Newsfeed. You can add your donor status to your Timeline from there by clicking "Share your organ donor status."
Thank you for taking the time to learn how to add that you are an organ, eye and tissue donor to your Timeline. Ask your friends to do the same.
Users in the United States and the U.K. can enroll as organ donors via links to official registries on the world's biggest social networking site, said CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The links should make it easier for people who want to donate their organs to sign up.
Facebook users who are already organ donors can add that information to their profile page, now known as their timeline.
Zuckerberg said his friendship with Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who had received a liver transplant before he died last year, helped spur the idea, as did talks with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan, a medical student. More than 112,000 Americans are waiting for organs and 18 people die every day from the lack of available organs, according to Donate Life America, a nonprofit that is teaming with Facebook. Zuckerberg announced the organ donor update to Facebook on "Good Morning America" Tuesday.
Facebook Inc., based in Menlo Park, Calif., is busy readying an initial public stock offering said to be pegged at $5 billion. Facebook's IPO could place the company's value at $100 billion.
How to share that you are an organ, eye and tissue donor on Facebook:
If you have not officially registered with your local authority you can:
Privacy Settings:
When you are done:
Other Useful Information:
Thank you for taking the time to learn how to add that you are an organ, eye and tissue donor to your Timeline. Ask your friends to do the same.
