100,000 Facebook users use new organ donor option

By Mike Stobbe

The Associated Press

Wed, 05/02/2012 - 11:47am

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In this April 26, 2012 image released by ABC, Robin Roberts, host of "Good Morning America," right, talks to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, during an interview in Menlo Park, Calif., airing Tuesday, May 1, on "Good Morning America." Zuckerberg says U.S. and U.K. users will be able to enroll as organ donors via links on the world's biggest social networking site. 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. (AP Photo/ABC, Rick Rowell)
In this April 26, 2012 image released by ABC, Robin Roberts, host of "Good Morning America," right, talks to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, during an interview in Menlo Park, Calif., airing Tuesday, May 1, on "Good Morning America." Zuckerberg says U.S. and U.K. users will be able to enroll as organ donors via links on the world's biggest social networking site. 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. (AP Photo/ABC, Rick Rowell)
In this April 26, 2012 image released by ABC, Robin Roberts, host of "Good Morning America," right, talks to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, during an interview in Menlo Park, Calif., airing Tuesday, May 1, on "Good Morning America." Zuckerberg says U.S. and U.K. users will be able to enroll as organ donors via links on the world's biggest social networking site. 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. (AP Photo/ABC, Rick Rowell)
FILE - In a Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 file photo, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg takes questions from members of the media as a crowd looks on on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. On Tuesday, May 1, 2012, Facebook launched an upgrade to its Timeline structure, which asks users to check their organ donor status and directs them to Donate Life America's National Registration Page, allowing them to designate a donation decision if they have not done so already. In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America" this morning, Zuckerberg announced the new initiative and became one of the first Facebook users to sign up to donate on the social network. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
In this April 26, 2012 image released by ABC, Robin Roberts, host of "Good Morning America," right, talks to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, during an interview in Menlo Park, Calif., airing Tuesday, May 1, on "Good Morning America." Zuckerberg says U.S. and U.K. users will be able to enroll as organ donors via links on the world's biggest social networking site. 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. (AP Photo/ABC, Rick Rowell)
In this April 26, 2012 image released by ABC, Robin Roberts, host of "Good Morning America," right, talks to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, during an interview in Menlo Park, Calif., airing Tuesday, May 1, on "Good Morning America." Zuckerberg says U.S. and U.K. users will be able to enroll as organ donors via links on the world's biggest social networking site. 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. (AP Photo/ABC, Rick Rowell)
In this April 26, 2012 image released by ABC, Robin Roberts, host of "Good Morning America," right, talks to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, during an interview in Menlo Park, Calif., airing Tuesday, May 1, on "Good Morning America." Zuckerberg says U.S. and U.K. users will be able to enroll as organ donors via links on the world's biggest social networking site. 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. (AP Photo/ABC, Rick Rowell)
FILE - In a Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 file photo, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg takes questions from members of the media as a crowd looks on on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. On Tuesday, May 1, 2012, Facebook launched an upgrade to its Timeline structure, which asks users to check their organ donor status and directs them to Donate Life America's National Registration Page, allowing them to designate a donation decision if they have not done so already. In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America" this morning, Zuckerberg announced the new initiative and became one of the first Facebook users to sign up to donate on the social network. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

ATLANTA -- An organ donation group says more than 100,000 people used a new Facebook feature the first day to declare they are donors.

The new option was announced Tuesday by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to boost the number of potential organ donors. It allows Facebook users to add organ donor along with other personal information on the site.

Donate Life America, the group working with Facebook, said more than 100,000 users had added their donor status by Tuesday night.

The feature also provides a link to state registries so people can officially sign up to be a donor. By Wednesday morning, 18,000 Facebook users had used the link.

But a spokeswoman said they don't know how many of those 18,000 followed through and registered.

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Donate Life America: www.donatelife.net/

 

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