Friday, May 29, 2009

Some Good from Facebook

Facebook, the popular social network, people either love it or hate it. But this time it is a good thing Facebook is around. After 27 years a British mother and son have reunited thanks to Facebook. Back in 1982 when the boy was three his father told the mother he was taking the boy to the zoo, but instead abducted the boy and took him to Budapest, Hungary. Since Hungary was a communist country at that time the mother's pleas for help produced nothing. The mother even asked then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for help, but again nothing.
Not until this week, after 3 decades, mother and son were reunited because his aunt found an internet link to someone with his name. And the rest they say is history.
I highly doubt this story will change the opinions of Facebook haters, but it does prove a point that is not all bad.