Facebook has become more than a destination to find out what your junior high school bully has done with his life.
How’s that, you wonder?
Well for one thing, you can get a kidney from a near stranger!
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That’s what happened recently when Damon Brown, a 38 year-old from Seattle, created a Facebook page called “Damon’s Kidney.”
After the link to his page was passed around the social network, Damon found a donor in Jacqueline Ryall, 45 and from Florida, a woman Brown’s wife has known for years but not intimately.
A Michigan man also found a kidney via Facebook last year. A woman found a donor via Craigslist.
The experience appears to be common, says April Paschke, spokeswoman for UNOS, United Network of Organ Sharing, a non profit that manages the government’s organ donor machine.
“We see more and more people matched up by social media,” Paschke said, speaking to CBS News. “It’s an extension of the way we communicate. Before we found the Internet, people found other ways: through a church bulletin, word of mouth or an advertisement even.”
Brown was on a donor list for quite awhile and saw his health deteriorate before his two children’s eyes. Thanks to social media, he will be able to read them bedtime stories while sitting up and will live his life without aches and pains. He had his kidney transplant this morning. Read more of his story here!
SOURCE: CBS
