When Social Media is Used for Good: Can it Change a Life?
Published by Author Holly Matheson on Technorati - May 12, 2011
Alaina Giordano’s story first came to my attention last week in the same way that it came to many others: Facebook. Alaina lives just one town away from me in Durham, NC, so I have tracked her story over the course of the past week. But hers was not just any story - it was a public outreach for help that has sparked emotion in thousands of people as her Facebook page travels through the realms of the social stratosphere.
You see, Alaina has Stage 4 breast cancer. On April 25, 2011 a North Carolina Judge awarded custody of her two children, ages 11 and 5, to Alaina’s ex-husband due to an uncertainty in the amount of time she will live, stating that children with a terminally ill parent should spend more time with the parent who is not ill. The judge also cited that Alaina being unemployed was a factor in her decision to award custody to the father.
This is a beautiful story.
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socially-acceptable reblogged this from crystalsocialmedia and added:
an amazing story - having lost my father to cancer - this brings me true joy when something I believe so deeply in...
