Facebook now supports "Organ Donor' Status in Timeline

Facebook has announced a new status to the Timeline that allows users to indicate their organ donor status enabling millions to let others know that they are organ donors.With Facebook’s users now at 900 million, this has the potential to dramatically increase awareness of the need for organ donors, and also to help start conversations within families and to build awareness online. The option is present under Health and Wellness section. The new status allows you to specify the place where you have registered as an organ donor. This is not all, you can also specify the background of why you chose to donate organ to the public.



Mark Zukerberg says:

Facebook’s mission is simple: to make the world more open and connected. But the Facebook community has also shown us that simply through sharing and connecting, the world gets smaller and better. Even one individual can have an outsized impact on the challenges facing another, and on the world. At Facebook, we call that the power of friends.

Congratulations to Facebook for adding this important health-related feature!