Facebook adds organ donor status, registry to timeline

[Jazzy]

Facebook wants to make it easier to donate your organs and broadcast that information to all of your friends.



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 chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg.



Facebook users who are already organ donors can add that information to their timeline. Zuckerberg said his friendship with Apple 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.



Those who would like to become an organ donor can follow a link that will launch a state-by-state directory of organ donation registries. The links should make it easier for people who want to donate their organs to sign up.



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 has 901 million monthly active users and is based in Menlo Park, Calif. The social network 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.



Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_...try-to-timeline/?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.10



Question: Will you use this to become a donor?

 

[Sinon]

Yet again, he's adding worthless features instead of dealing with the issues most users actually care about.



I don't plan on becoming a donor, and I'm pretty sure most rational people won't let Facebook be the deal-breaker in whether or not they donate organs.

 

[Raven]

No because it won't change my views on why I don't want to donate.

 

[The Dragon Master]

I already chose to donate my organs when I registered for my provisional license. I don't need this.

 

[Katatonia]

I think Facebook's getting a bit overly confident/arrogant/egotistical...

 

[Evil Eye]

I don't plan on becoming a donor, and I'm pretty sure most rational people won't let Facebook be the deal-breaker in whether or not they donate organs.

Certainly not, but people who were too lazy to register before (but didn't mind to otherwise) might use it. If only one person uses it, it was worth while, I'd say.

 

[Bluezone777]

Somehow I think the doctors that would possibly have to deal with your now dead body might want that info but no one else should need to know but you and them. It sounds like another way to brag about your desire to be a donor then anything else. Why do people feel the need to put every aspect of their life on the internet? People truly have lost the value of privacy it seems.