Share Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October 1st marked the start of what the world acknowledges as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Throughout these 31 days pink will dominate as that is the designated and ever so popular awareness color for this rampant cancer.

Statistics received from the Trinidad and Tobago Cancer Society today revealed that between 1998 and 2007, 40.6% of female cancers reported were breast cancer cases of women between the ages of 25 to 59 years old..... TWENTY FIVE YEARS OLD? Wow!!!

Friends of Trinidad and Tobago Cancer Society decided that using social media we were going to spread the word via well...this blog, share ways of how it is being done on Facebook, dabble in Twitter and a couple more surprises along the way. After all, we do have 31 days in this month!

We get the awareness ball rolling by using the share feature on Facebook, a simple and effective way of getting friends, friends of friends and friends of friends of friends to see, read and become aware of cancer. The Society already has a FB page so as Friends of the Society we share whatever the Society posts to our personal FB page so that equals 7 different groups of people seeing cancer information posted by the Society increasing their views by hundreds and even thousands!

We patiently awaited for Breast Cancer Awareness month to commence and BOOM!! As they posted their first statement regarding the month we all shared and shared and shared and.... you know what we mean. Before the day was over, there were 55 shares to that post. Friends of TTCS can only hope that we were responsible for that number of shares.

Social media can be used for more than just connecting people, making money and posting music videos it can be used to raise awareness of a topic, issue or disease that could potentially save a life. It can be used to educate. It can reach more persons if friends get friends to SHARE....so we invite you to do just that...
                 https://www.facebook.com/TrinidadandTobagoCancerSociety?ref=hl

This week Friends of the Cancer Society used a social networking site (Fabcebook) to spread the word of cancer awareness month by utilizing the share feature simple and effective. What about you? Will you share?