Who says that social media makes your life more miserable? Who says that social media is made only to make you lose your privacy?
Recently we’ve been hearing about how a person got caught in Facebook faking his illness to get a sick leave, how 2 girls shouted for help on Facebook rather than calling the emergency service, or how a mom got sacked because she made an inappropriate comment about her workplace on Twitter.
This time it’s different. It’s the story of my friend, Huiwen, in Singapore (well, we met briefly on the Nuffnang Blog Award 2009 last month) whose dog went missing. By some miracles, she then found Scruffy (the dog) through series of tweeting, plurking, facebook-ing?, and who knows what else!
I’m not gonna re-tell the story again here in this blog but feel free to check out her blog posts to find out how the social media helped her in finding her lost dog! It was quite an amusing story especially on how fast and helpful the people at social media are!
At the end, my friend was contacted by the people who found her dog through the contact form on her blog!
The story goes as follows:
- How Scruffy went missing
- How people worked together on Twitter, Facebook, Plurk, and through her blog post to find Scruffy
- The aftermath and her thoughts on the whole experience
I believe her story should have been made onto the media! This is quite an amusing experience and deserves a coverage!
Good on you, Scruffy! Maybe you want to blog about it? *pet*
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Glad she found him, I have never heard such a story, it was really interesting. Sure social media rocks!!
Wow, that’s wonderful…. there are some good people left out there, who are ready to go miles for others. I’m glad the dog did not end up with bad people. Social media are an extension of our lives. It can be bad or useful…. but in this case, it is very useful… thanks for sharing..
Now what do you know, miracles do happen, even in social media! That’s just amazing. I’m glad Scruffy made it back home safely. I wished I had tried this when my pet got lost.. but back then no Twitter, Facebook.. nada!
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I was reading the news today and there was this interesting news – it was on how a simple status update on facebook helps provide an alibi for this man http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/12/facebook.alibi/index.html
Ah I read it on a forum before. It is quite an achievement for law to actually take Facebook as a tool for an alibi
That’s a sweet story
I’m glad to see a story like this rather than the usual “cisco fatty”-stories.
lol Cisco Fatty
Wow!This is a good story to tell, actually I am not surprised that social media can bring back a lost dog
and I agree with you .. this should be on the Media!
Wish I know someone in the media
I started to believe that social media is helpful in any way when I read in a newspaper about a robber who was silly enough to log-on his Facebook or Twitter on the victim’s computer and forgot to log-out. Captured! I’m glad that your friend has found her dog through social media. This is something unusual.
Yeah I read that too. It’s kinda silly why would he want to login unless if he didn’t have a computer at home!! Still…maybe he was trying to update his status? “Stealing a computer now…..”
Malcolm Turnbull, our opposition leader, might have been a little bit lost at times with his party’s policies. But his dogs can never be lost since they have their own blog:
http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/DogBlogs/tabid/104/Default.aspx
Although it hasn’t been updated for a while now.
Ahahaha nice one, Tito. I even remember reading a cat’s blog.. forgot the URL now though, but it was interesting