Organ donation and Facebook’s Life Event

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Organ donation and Facebook’s Life Event – an opportunity for registry members

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:

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From your personal Facebook timeline page:

1. Click Life Event in the status update window at the top of your timeline
2. Select Health & Wellness
3. Select Other Life Event
4. Title the event Joined Be The Match Registry as a potential Marrow Donor
5. Upload the Be The Match image from above (right click to save
6. Insert the date you joined the registry – if you are unsure, please call us at 1-800-MARROW2
7. 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.
8. 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.