Almost a week ago, a two friends of mine found a small dog wandering around the Lakewood mall all alone. They took her home and began uploading pictures and videos to the app Snapchat, talking about how they found her. That same night, they began posting pictures onto the app Instagram to try and find her owner. Pretty soon, many of the people who knew my friends began posting the same picture to their profiles, saying to contact Kamryn, one of my friends. I offered to help go around her neighborhood the next day to find the owner.
The next day, I went over to Kamryn's house and we walked around for a few hours before she got a message from a girl saying that the lost dog was hers. We went to Mayfair (since the girl was in summer school at the time) to wait for the dog's owner. Once the girl came out, she turned her head in the direction where we were sitting and covered her mouth, joy clearly spreading on her face. She came over and got her dog, thanking my friend multiple times before walking off.
Without the help of the social media apps, my friend may not have found the owner as fast as she did, if ever. While reading Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky, he states that one person can be the connection between others. Through social media, a wider range of people were connected to Kamryn. They were able let the owner know who had the dog and help Kamryn and the owner get in touch.
That's a pretty awesome story.
ReplyDeleteI'm overjoyed by the idea of people helping other people. I think Kamryn's willingness to give the owner back her dog is an example of true human selflessness. While all of the violence going on in the world it is nice to know that nice people still exist.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that you were able to safely return the dog to its owner. In this case, yes, social media was a great way to spread the word quickly and sufficiently. Situations like this are great examples for a large group of people to come and work together towards a goal.
ReplyDeleteI'm so happy to learn that through social media you found the owner of the dog. This shows how technology is such a helpful tool for many different things. When I lost my dog, the dog pound was the first place to inform me that they found my dog. The reason they knew who the dog belonged to was due to the microscopic chip that was inserted into my dog's skin when we first adopted him. The chip, a size of a grain of rice and harmless to the dog, was able to identify the contact information of the owner of the dog. This is just one of many examples that demonstrates how technology is helpful.
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