Recently launched interactive website, My Social Strand, turns your Facebook profile into a personalized infographic. Created by non profit organisation Be The Match that offers a unique way for people to donate bone marrow, it aims to highlight each individual’s uniqueness in a fun and socially interactive way which, according to Be The Match also emphasizes the uniqueness of each individual as a possible bone marrow match.
Once a user connects to the Facebook app through the Be The Match website, and answers a few simple questions, the personalized infographic will feature information such as how your social sharing behaviours compare to your Facebook friends‘, how your interests compare to other respondents, how long you‘ve been alive, the most popular song the day you were born (which plays in the infographic) and how many other people share your name.
Be The Match didn’t create the project to teach the public about the need for bone marrow donors suffering from leukemia and other associated diseases but rather it hopes that people will be curious about how their own personalized infographic will turn out and in the process will decide to register for the bone marrow database.
a Be The Match spokesperson said that “œOur hope is that in just a couple minutes of engagement, people will want to get involved. We think this is a simple, quick way to get people involved without getting into the heavy science.“
Below is my attempt at creating my own infographic (click to enlarge). However, because the site is aimed at U.S. citizens I had to enter in my place of residence as Los Angeles, California and naturally the political preferences of my friends (democratic, republican etc.. ) is not recorded. Interestingly enough according to the infographic the number one song when I was born was ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’ by Tears For Fears’ and the most common age with my name is 34.
Do you think that creating your own infographic through Facebook is an effective way to learn more about yourself and promote important causes?
Source: Mashable
