Finding a Kidney Donor on Facebook
When Cathy Schroeder saw on Facebook that a friend of a friend–a woman she had never met–needed a kidney, she didn’t immediately think that she’d be the one who would donate it.
But the fact that the woman’s plight was important to a mutual friend prompted Ms. Schroeder to read more about her. And a few months later, in late 2008, Ms. Schroeder donated her kidney to a New York woman named Beth Abramowitz.
Ms. Schroeder is profiled in “Facebook Fairytales,” a new book by Emily Liebert. The book and Ms. Schroeder’s story in particular show how social networking is changing the way people interact.
“Even if you’re not directly connected to the person, you feel connected to them through someone else,” said Ms. Liebert, whose book also details stories from people who found a child to adopt through Facebook and a father who continued posting messages on his daughter’s Facebook page after her death.
