Facebook is contact usrolling out a new feature to help blood donors, and the people who need it in India find each other.
On Oct. 1, India's National Blood Donor Day, Facebook will start prompting users to sign up as blood donors. People will see the prompt in their timelines, and can tag themselves as donors in their profiles, and choose to share this with friends.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable SEE ALSO: 'Jigsaw' film runs blood drive in protest of 'discriminatory' donation rules In the weeks after, it'll then allow people or organisations seeking blood to create posts to request for it. The post can be geotargeted, so it pushes a notification to tagged donors who are nearer to the seeking party.
Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable When donors accept the request, organisations will be able to reach them privately via phone call, or Facebook's Messenger and WhatsApp platforms.
Facebook says this feature is serving a real need. India faces a blood shortage, where it has about 10 percent less donated than it needs. More than 38,000 donations are needed each day to address the deficit for the hundreds of millions of major surgeries that are carried out.
"People are using Facebook literally thousands of times a week to look for blood donors," Hema Budaraju, a Facebook product manager, told CNN.
The feature will first come to Android apps and the mobile web version, which are the ways most Indians interact with Facebook.
Facebook is inviting people in India to go to facebook.com/donateblood to sign up for the good cause.
(Editor: {typename type="name"/})
Best Amazon deal: Save 20% on floral and botanical Lego sets
Apple self
Disney+ Day: All the news from Star Wars, Marvel, and more
Bald eagle forgets handler and lands on Mariners pitcher James Paxton instead
Waymo stopped Los Angeles man from stealing a driverless car
A hedgehog blown up 'like a beach ball' was popped in life
This gassy hedgehog has had a rough week.He was rescued in Doncaster, England last Monday after a me
...[Details]
MindBody crashed, so studios, teachers, and fitness lovers were pissed
The fitness community awoke Thursday to harrowing news: that MindBody class-booking software was dow
...[Details]
Kim Kardashian has finally shared a full Kardashian
The Kardashian-West family might be as close as we'll get to a royal family in the United States but
...[Details]
Activists show up at Facebook HQ to demand better privacy
It was a small but passionate group at the entrance to Facebook's Silicon Valley headquarters midday
...[Details]
CES 2025: The best smart glasses
CES 2025 was the year of the smart glasses. AR / VR headsets were everywhere. Just when we thought w
...[Details]
A guide to floral foam videos, the slime videos of 2018
For what seemed like eons, but was really just most of 2017, the internet was deeply into slime. Tho
...[Details]
TikTok doctors take on viral COVID myths
PagingDr. Internet, we need a diagnosis. In this series, Mashable examines the online world's influe
...[Details]
Amazon finally launches a Prime Video app for the Mac
Amazon finally has a native Prime Video app for macOS. On Monday, the company started rolling the ap
...[Details]
Did Elon Musk push former FAA leader out? Trump admin responds after deadly plane crash
In the late evening hours of Jan. 29, a U.S. Army helicopter collided with a descending American Air
...[Details]
What's with this random goat on a roof?
Well, here's an animal on a roof story that's vying to be the G.O.A.T.Australian man Jeremy Peck and
...[Details]
接受PR>=1、BR>=1，流量相当，内容相关类链接。
