The Facebook Blog
One of the hidden perks of working at Facebook is that we have the privilege of witnessing the amazing ways people use the site. The stories range from the profound to the quotidian—but all demonstrate the power of Facebook to help people share, connect and change the world along the way.
A daughter wrote in to say she'd found her mother on Facebook, "I have been looking for my biological mother for 20 years...and my mom found me on Facebook. We were able to exchange pictures and talk. It was the best day of my life, and I owe that to Facebook". A local paper picked up on a school principal engaging with his students in a group. Perhaps the biggest stories we've seen are on the protests around the world, against a 40-year-old terrorist organization called the FARC, as a result of a Facebook group and event started by an ordinary Colombian citizen.
Whether or not these stories hit the papers, they give our work more meaning, and we want to be able to share them more broadly. In the coming months, we'll be highlighting stories like these here on our blog. In the process, we hope you can see the different ways Facebook is used across the world. If you have a story you would like to share with us, please submit it here.
Joanna, a Team Lead in User Operations, can't wait to hear from you.
A daughter wrote in to say she'd found her mother on Facebook, "I have been looking for my biological mother for 20 years...and my mom found me on Facebook. We were able to exchange pictures and talk. It was the best day of my life, and I owe that to Facebook". A local paper picked up on a school principal engaging with his students in a group. Perhaps the biggest stories we've seen are on the protests around the world, against a 40-year-old terrorist organization called the FARC, as a result of a Facebook group and event started by an ordinary Colombian citizen.
Whether or not these stories hit the papers, they give our work more meaning, and we want to be able to share them more broadly. In the coming months, we'll be highlighting stories like these here on our blog. In the process, we hope you can see the different ways Facebook is used across the world. If you have a story you would like to share with us, please submit it here.
Joanna, a Team Lead in User Operations, can't wait to hear from you.
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