Facebook Gives Back
With as crazy as the world seems sometimes, it's refreshing to see organizations and platforms putting in effort to give back. In just the last few months we've experienced unsurmountable humanitarian and natural disaster losses as a nation in Las Vegas, Houston, and Florida- only to name a few. This week I ran across an article that explained how Facebook has recently added a crisis donations feature which allows users to donate to GlobalGiving. GlobalGiving is an organization which gives to various nonprofits that give to disaster relief etc. Seeing platforms utilize technology to give back is extremely admirable and is a prime demonstration of CSR in action. Facebook recently also rolled out a feature that allows people to mark themselves as "safe" when in an area that is within distance of any of city or town under a crisis or emergency situation. Facebook's social good manager, Asha Sharma, describes the goals of Facebook's programs saying, "O ur go