Missing Persons Advocacy Network is an organisation that provides support and advice to families and friends of missing persons.
Social media has always been a powerful tool to spread a message, fast. Now, Facebook’s facial recognition technology can help even more.
All you have to do is Add Friend. That’s it.
Facebook will do the rest.
Your feed won’t be filled with posts or images.
These profiles will be an invisible friend sitting in your friendship list.
But it might help bring someone home.
Over 100 people go missing every day in Australia.
That’s one person every 14 minutes.
There are around 2,000 long-term missing people in Australia.
When one person goes missing, at least 12 others are directly
impacted emotionally, financially and psychologically.
350,000,000 photos are uploaded to Facebook every day.
Facebook’s facial recognition is 98% accurate.
The FBI’s is only 85%.
Because of Facebook every person in the world is now connected by 3.5 degrees of separation.
MPAN is an an unfunded non-profit run entirely upon donations.
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