New York: Facebook wants to help you share your organs. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says US and UK users will be able to enroll as organ donors via links on the world's biggest social networking site.
Facebook users who are already organ donors can add that information to their Facebook Timelines. And those, who are not organ donors, can find links to official organ donation registries and instantly enroll.
"We want to make it simple," said Zuckerberg. "You just put in the state or country that you are from, so that we can help link you to the official registries."
Zuckerberg announced the organ donor update to Facebook on "Good Morning America" Tuesday. "Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there," Zuckerberg told ABC's Robin Roberts in an exclusive interview at the company’s headquarters.
Zuckerberg says his friendship with Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who had received a liver transplant before he died last year, helped spur the idea.
Facebook Inc., based in Menlo Park, California, 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.
According to The New York Times, around 7,000 people die in US each year while waiting for an organ transplant. And this is the number that that Facebook hopes to lower with its wide network of 161 million members in US.
With additional inputs from Associated Press
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