Facebook Is Extending Its Network to Blood Donations looking for blood....in all the right places...

Still think Facebook is something just for entertainment....well think again...if you donate blood you can get a reminder and when your blood type is needed, alerts will be sent...so you could get an alert to possibly donate blood in a certain city, region, etc. when supplies are low....this appears to be one of the most useful programs to be added to Facebook....BD

Facebook, the vast and expanding social networking Web site, is about to confront users with a serious new question: What’s your blood type?

For those who opt in, the system will send out alerts through Facebook — as well as by phone, fax, e-mail and text message — when their blood type is needed in their area. It will also send out reminders for regular donations.

A program to be officially introduced on Monday by a New York-area nonprofit organization called Takes All Types aims to better coordinate where and when people donate blood in response to shortages and crises while encouraging broader donation over all.“This suggests that you can do almost anything when you have a growing network,” said Michael A. Cusumano, a professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “That’s the core of what Facebook’s value is — that you have this increasing network of people and you can lay almost anything on top of it.”