Organ donation and Facebook’s Life Event
After taking a personal interest in organ donation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that organ donors can now add their organ donation status as a Facebook Life Event. Did you know that you can easily add your Be The Match Registry commitment on Facebook too? Here’s how:
Save the image below to your computer.
From your personal Facebook timeline page:
- Click Life Event in the status update window at the top of your timeline
- Select Health & Wellness
- Select Other Life Event
- Title the event Joined Be The Match Registry as a potential Marrow Donor
- Upload the Be The Match image from above (right click to save
- Insert the date you joined the registry – if you are unsure, please call us at 1-800-MARROW2
- Add the location and a line or two about your story (optional)
- For donor/patient confidentiality reasons, please don’t post your donation date if you have donated marrow or PBSC.
- Select your audience (next to the Save button) and click Save
Note: As with some personal information on Facebook, this Life Event status can be kept private or shared publicly or only with friends. In order to share this Life Event, you need to upgrade to Facebook timeline. To get started go to the Introducing Timeline page and click Get It Now. Learn more about upgrading.
Great idea. Thank you
I think this is a great way to touch people, because social media is so huge right now! This is a fantastic idea to reach a wide-variety of age groups especially the youth.
Done! Thank you!
i would like to do this, but am unsure what year i joined the Registry! Is there any way to find this out, since our profile information is not available online? (it’s been around 20 years since i registered!)
Please give us a call at 1-800-MARROW2 and someone can look up the date you were added to Be The Match Registry. Thanks!
My Blackberry doesn’t know how to spell. What’s the number number please?
Lindsay, when you pull up the number pad to make a call, there are letters next to each number. Those are the letters in this phone number. The number number is 1-800-627-7692.
Blackberries don’t have regular alpha/numberic buttons so to dial a letter just hold the Alt(half moon)+Letter. Your Blackberry will automatically figure out which number each letter corresponds to and dial.
I need to know if I am still active. I would like to help someone. Thank you.
Love being in the Registry but hate the Timeline feature on Facebook!
I agree. I am happy to be a registered donor and would like to tell my Facebook friends, but I hate Timeline and it’s not right that I have to switch in order to post my participation in Be the Match.
Too bad you can’t read the website address. It’s too small and out-of-focus. Friends who want to sign-up as a potential donor could use the information, if it was available. A big opportunity is being missed here.
When I first heard about the marrow registry all I knew was that it’s called be the match so I googled “be the match” it’s the first result
If you don’t have a story yet, or even if you do, you should use http://www.bethematchblog.org/ in the area so everyone knows what it’s all about.
I would really like to help and be an organ donor.I just join Be The Match Registry on Facebook?That’s all?Thank you!
Hi Alexir- Be The Match Registry offers you the unique opportunity to help a patient in need by donating bone marrow or umbilical cord blood. We do not work with solid organ donation. To get involved you can visit http://www.BeTheMatch.org
The picture isn’t recognized when I try to save it and then use it on my facebook for others to see.
Hi Sherry, upload the Be The Match image by right clicking as saving the link to your desktop. Thanks!
Too much work. Can’t you just design an app that uploads to FB with one click?
I did that when I first joined, I will always be commited
Too much work- waste my time
What a great idea! As a physician and registered bone marrow donor, I think that it is a fantastic way to inform people about the program.
I’m sorry about those few who see this as being “too much work.” Considering the struggle of those fighting cancer, this small effort on our parts is nothing. Let’s be altruistic and not narcissistic, folks!