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Facebook Now Lets You Advertise Your Organs on Your Profile

• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay Dillow
Meanwhile, there are 161 million Americans on Facebook. That math must have seemed pretty simple to Mark Zuckerberg and company at Facebook HQ, where the team has just added organ donation status to its users’ profiles.
 
As the New York Times notes, this is less about social networking and more about social engineering. A declaration on Facebook doesn’t necessarily make a person a donor--those who are really serious about legally becoming organ donors should sign up at their state registry (you can do this easily at your local department of motor vehicles or online)--but it very well could help organ donation become a social norm, and spur people who are on the fence or who simply haven’t taken the time to legally register to go ahead and sign up.
 
But the Facebook declaration could carry some legal weight. Often the family of a deceased person simply needs evidence of consent in order to make a decision regarding the donation of their loved one’s organs. In such cases, the very public declaration on Facebook could serve as that evidence.
 
 

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