In celebration of its tenth birthday, Facebook has come up with www.facebookstories.com to present how users from all over the world were able to use the popular social networking site in an extraordinary way.
There’s Andrea Mihalik from New Jersey, United States, who makes one-of-a-kind, handcrafted chairs for her business, Wild Chairy. On a visit to Kiltamany, a small village in Kenya, she was able to witness a wedding, where the locals were dressed up in beaded jewelry and patterned clothing.
In awe, she knew she wanted to collaborate with the women who wove their own neckpieces. They were able to keep in touch through Facebook messaging, and Mihalik has incorporated their designs into two of her chairs.
One of the women from the village said, on the video that accompanies the story, that she and her fellow weavers were able to send their children to school through the sale of their wares.
Learn more about “Weaving Connections” here: .
Another character is Yisrael Quic, a librarian in the village of San Juan La Laguna in Guatemala.
36 years of war had created a culture of silence in his community of Tz’utujil Mayans. But with the help of teachers who donated books to build a library, the new generation is not just gaining access to information, but slowly finding their voice, as well.
With the arrival of the Internet to their village, they were able to access more knowledge online, but, sadly, there was none on their native language.
Quic is remedying this through a Facebook page and group where he writes in their Mayan language, to be able to bring it – and their way of life – to the future.
Learn more about “The Librarian” here: http://www.facebookstories.com/stories/53739/the-librarian.
A third story is straight out of Parent Trap. Born in Busan, South Korea, Samantha from New Jersey and Anaïs from Paris, France, were twins separated – if not at birth, then somewhere around that time, when they were put up for adoption by different institutions.
After Anaïs saw videos of Samantha on YouTube and a trailer for the latter’s movie 21 & Over, she messaged her on Facebook to find out if there was more to their uncanny resemblance than a mere coincidence.
Five days later they came face-to-face on Skype, and the rest is history.
Learn more about the “Twinsters” here: http://www.facebookstories.com/stories/53771/twinsters.
Facebook has many other stories to move and to inspire, such as that of a homeless poet in São Paulo, Brazil; a photographer in New York, New York; an art movement celebrating LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) rights in Sydney Australia; a cab driver in London, England; lovers in the US, whose relationship transcended continents and lifetimes; and a man from Manitoba, Canada, who helped a boy from Congo undergo a surgery so he could walk.
source: interaksyon.com
