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Facebook is a place to catch up with friends, share articles and information, and now find kidneys.

According to news station KHOU, 36-year-old Dan Garrett recently received a new kidney after his wife put up a message on Facebook looking for a donor. Although the couple couldn’t find a match among friends and family, Facebook member Aly Carr, 26, offered up hers.

Acts of generosity like this have been popping up more and more on social networking sites. In fact, according to the French Tribune, organ donation groups are becoming more common on Facebook, with about dozens of pages available under the search term “need kidney.”

Facebook isn’t the only site people are using to help find kidney matches. In fact, in 2011, a Twitter member with kidney disease tweeted that he needed a kidney and 19 people offered to find out if they might be a match — and when the match came back positive for one of his acquaintances, he received the kidney.

Meanwhile, a woman in Florida recently received a kidney after posting an ad for one on Craigslist.

Do you think this is a part of a bigger trend? Will more people find organs online in the future? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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It may seem like everyone, everywhere is sending text messages these days. But according to a Forbes report, texting may be on the decline across various countries.

Tero Kuittinen, a senior analyst at M.G.I. Research, wrote via a blog post for Forbes that certain times during the holidays that usually bring in a lot of texts, such as Christmas Eve and Christmas, were significantly lower in 2011 compared to the year before. The decline may hint at signs that consumers are finding new ways to send messages to friends and family.

The decline of texts during the holidays occurred in various global markets. In Finland, prominent mobile carrier Sonera reported that 8.5 million text messages were sent on Christmas Eve of 2011, down 22% from 10.9 million sent on the same day in 2010. Australia also reported a 9% decrease, as did Hong Kong with a 14% drop in Christmas Day texts.

Industry experts expect that cellphone users are sending messages in different ways, from social networking sites to iMessage, the free iOS service that uses a phone’s Internet connection to send messages.

“It’s quite possible that the SMS erosion will hit AT&T and Verizon in 2012 or 2013,” Kuittinen said. “The fast fade of SMS usage in countries that were most obsessed with text-messaging tells us how difficult it is to project rates of decline of aging technologies – and how unfaithful consumers can be to services that they have loyally used for 15 years.”

However, for now, people aren’t ready to forgo sending and receiving texts all together. In fact, according to a Pew Research Center Global Attitudes Project study published in December 2011, about 75% of cellphone users in 21 countries said they still send texts.

Do you think text messaging will be replaced by other platforms and services in the future? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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