Facebook Tackles The Need for Organ Donors

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that the social network will now have a feature allowing users in the U.S. and U.K. to spread the word to friends that they are registered organ donors. And if they’re not, there are links that will take visitors to sites where they can enroll.

Zuckerberg told ABC’s Robin Roberts that he first became aware of the ways in which users were tapping into Facebook’s sharing capabilities to deal with “complex social problems” like the aftermath of the tornadoes that swept through Missouri.

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