Be an Organ Donor Status on Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Facebook Inc. is urging the members of the world’s biggest social network to share their organ-donor status on the site that aims to encourage more donations and lessen times of waiting for transplants. Users can add donor plans to their profile starting today, just like they already note a hometown or alma mater, Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer. There will also be a link to the official donor registry, the Menlo Park California-based. A number of 114,000 people in the U.S. and millions worldwide are waiting to save a life- heart, liver or kidney transplants. According to the statistics showed by the Micron Associates, many of them more likely 18 at average in a day die due to the fact that there are not enough organs for transplant. Zuckerberg and Sandberg pointed out on the blog that medical experts believe that a wider awareness about organ donation could go a long way toward solving the said crisis. Everyone can play an important role using the power of sharing and connection by just simply telling other people that you are an organ donor.

1. Micron Associates: Hi! TECH.
Be an Organ Donor Status on Facebook?

2. Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Facebook Inc. is urging
the members of the world’s biggest social network to share their organ-
donor status on the site that aims to encourage more donations and
lessen times of waiting for transplants. Users can add donor plans to
their profile starting today, just like they already note a hometown or
alma mater, Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief
operating officer. There will also be a link to the official donor
registry, the Menlo Park California-based. A number of 114,000 people
in the U.S. and millions worldwide are waiting to save a life- heart, liver
or kidney transplants. According to the statistics showed by the Micron
Associates, many of them more likely 18 at average in a day die due to
the fact that there are not enough organs for transplant. Zuckerberg and
Sandberg pointed out on the blog that medical experts believe that a
wider awareness about organ donation could go a long way toward
solving the said crisis. Everyone can play an important role using the
power of sharing and connection by just simply telling other people that
you are an organ donor.

3. Today, Facebook added the ability to update a health and
wellness section on profiles with organ-donor status. That
medical section, debuted earlier this year when Facebook
introduced a new timeline format, also lets users add
information about illness, weight loss, broken bones, and efforts
to quit unhealthy habits.

4. According to the Director of the division of transplantation at the Health
Resources and Services Administration, a part of the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services- Richard Durbin,” U.S. organ donations are
state-regulated, and sharing plans to become a donor on Facebook
probably would not be legally binding.” In order to make donor
intentions legally enforceable, people need to enroll in official registries
in which links to these registries on its site , Durbin added. While
Facebook’s push will probably improve awareness, it probably won’t be
enough to get rid of the shortage of transplant organs, Durbin said. News
reports says that only 10,000 deaths each year in the U.S. result in organs
that can be used for transplant, he said. “Even if everybody eligible to be
an organ donor became an organ donor it would not satisfy the need,”
Durbin concluded.