This is insane, seriously, the latest buzz on Facebook is Lily, the Black Bear giving birth live to the audience on Facebook. This wasn’t something accidental, rather a group of researchers had installed a camera in her den to study the bear’s hibernation. The page as of now has close to 65,000 fans in under a fortnight.
The birth was given on Friday and the reason why it is creating such a stir is because this is the first time a bear giving birth in the wild has been recorded. So what exactly can this be put to use with? Researchers alone of course while Facebook users have a reason to talk about or should I say another reason to create a brouhaha about. While I was writing this post I just clicked over to the page and there is every sort of talk about the topic there. I mean there is even a talk about raising donations for the cause for www.bear.org and they have already raised a healthy $35,823. Surprising.
While I do appreciate the research bit here and the need to learn about the animals in the wild the facebook fanpage for this is quite astonishing. Not that I envy this or hate the idea, but it just shows how the platform is being utilized by everyone around for the countless purposes. Just a bit worried because this has set up a new category how the social network can be used and I am more than ready to see a plethora of such pages springing up in the weeks to follow.
Do you have any such recorded case? have you ever thought about creating a page for that? Do let us know! Who knows you might build a massive fan following for even an insane idea.
