An Australian man found a camera at a bus stop in Greece and created a Facebook group to try and identify the owner. He started out by posting the pictures that were on the camera in hopes of someone recognizing one of the people in the photographs.
The group started out with 40 people and has grown to over 180,000. Unfortunately, the owner of the camera has not yet been identified.
I know that lots of people joining a Facebook group isn't a new thing, but I still think it's incredible that that many people have heard about the group in such a short amount of time. Even if 99 percent of people joined just for a laugh, that still leaves almost 2000 people that are actually trying to help find the camera's owner.
This just reinforces the power of social media websites as an effective way to advertise and conduct public relations campaigns.
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/11/02/Facebook-group-seeks-cameras-owner/UPI-13091257204858/
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Wow! I lost my camera on a trip to San Francisco for my birthday. I wish someone had done this for me.
This just enforces the idea that Internet progressives push for: a global community. This is the direction we should be going.
That's cool. There have been a few blogs like this, where they post pictures trying to find the owner. Wouldn't it be terrible if you had some really embarrassing pictures.
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