Takes All Types , a new non-profit all-American blood donor organization, launched a
facebook application that is designed to help those in need to find a donor as quickly and efficiently as possible.
By installing the application, the user specifies the parameters of his blood, the desired methods of notification (RSS, email, sms, etc.) and the frequency with which he is ready to donate blood (no more than once every 57 days). As soon as TaT receives information about the lack of blood at any point, alerts are sent to suitable users in the region.
It should be noted that in the states the procedure for blood donation is very dreary, and the donor is required to fill a lot of papers and pass several tests.
Despite the fact that the general background from the appearance of the application is purely positive, and it was called “the first really useful application on Facebook”, only 275 people have installed it so far.