Approximately 7,000 people in the U.S. die each year while waiting for an organ transplant that's needed to save their life. Using it's 161 million members, Facebook is attempting to encourage it's members to "start advertising their donor status on their pages, along with their birth dates and schools - a move that it hopes will create peer pressure to nudge more people to add their names to the rolls of registered organ donors." Facebook is hoping that once people start publicly posting their organ donor status that it will encourage those who aren't registered organ donors to become one. This kind of information disclosed on facebook could "provide the evidence of consent that family members need when deciding whether to donate the organs of a loved one." Many doctors are excited about Facebook's recent announcement. They believe that Facebook will help aid in taking action to greatly reduce the number of deaths of those in need of an organ transplant. Facebook isn't just trying to help the shortage of organ donors in the United States, they are doing it in the United Kingdom as well. Facebook was powerful enough to change the online marketing and advertising world, is it powerful enough to change the medical world too? Will Facebook be the savior that many people have been waiting for? We can only hope so. It's not as if we don't have the medical technology to give someone a new heart, or a kidney, we just don't have the resources. With this new idea Facebook can show and provide more resources to save lives. With the combination of social media and medicine, Facebook will hopefully change the world for better.

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With the new millenium came new, more advanced technology. The technology industry is always expanding and has remained quite strong through the Great Recession; but is it too strong? Many industries are becoming more and more extinct due to the development of innovative technology. Some of the industries that are taking serious hits include photofinishing, appliance repair, DVD, game & video rentals, newspaper publishing, recordable media manufacturing and other few select industries. The photofinishing industry revenue has dropped annually over the past decade by 11.4%. This decrease in revenue is due to competition from camera phones, digital cameras, home printing devices and online tools. With appliance repair, it's actually become cheaper and more efficient to just buy new appliances instead of paying the few hundred dollars to have them fixed. For DVD's, games and videos, everything has been made easily available on the internet, which is also why newspaper publishing revenue has dropped 6.4% on an annual basis. For recordable media manufacturing, video cassettes and CD's have basically become obsolete. Who needs a stack of CD's when you have an iPod, iTunes or Spotify? Who needs DVDs when you can just watch the movie online? It is clear that the technology industry is becoming the essence of our future, which in turn allows PMX Computing to flourish and grow. For more information on other industries that are bad for small businesses to get in to, click here!