A Shock Start to 2010 (From Surrey Comet)

A Shock Start to 2010

5:44pm Thursday 4th February 2010 in

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Annie Sibthorp looks further into facebook.

The first month of 2010 is almost over and we were all shocked by a catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday 12th January just 16 days ago. The earthquake was 7 on the Richter scale and has killed around 170,000 people, and those are only the body’s that have been found among the ruined remains of Haiti.

People have given generously to charities and aids, you can give money at banks, newsagents, you can call in, donate over the internet and the one that has made me happiest to think about is the donations made via Facebook. Since the earthquake groups have been appearing, they claim that for every member of the group they will donate 5 cents or something similar; this might not sound like a lot but Facebook is a global social networking site. Anybody can be a member of the site as long as you are 13 plus, all of this makes facebook the most frequently used social networking website; it contains millions of members so even when you only donate 5 cents for every member of one group when a websites this big it could lead to one big donation.

This way of donating is completely original but totally accessible to any teenager because although there not donating personally but they are causing donations. Out of all of the aid that has occurred I think this should be the most praised as the creator of this group will have so far raised $15943.15; I hope that the creator of this selfless group will keep this promise and donate the money he promised to help the damaged and horror struck people of Haiti so no more have to die.