extremepoverty

Did you know that social media accounts for 18% of the time you spend online. 6,7 hours is on Facebook per month on average. If you take ONE hour of your online time per month and donate your corresponding revenue by working that hour instead of FB surfing, you can put an end to "extreme poverty".

Let's take the average American income: $ 28.95 / hr. times by 1 hour, times 168,642,820 Facebook users in the United States. Well the work and surf American population could donate $ 4,882,209,639 per month :)

I guess the rest of the world's Facebook users can donate one hour of their surfing too? Here are the juicy numbers: assume that a quarter of the western world FB surfers do the "Facebook 1hr. donation". Meaning the working U.S., Europe and Asia FB surfers, we have 4.3 billion dollars ($4,350,859,746) donated to the fight against poverty each month!

The World Bank definition of extreme poverty is: the population living on less than $1.25 a day. Approximately 1 billion people still live in extreme poverty. So we need 37.5 billion U.S. dollars per month! Look, we can help 11.5% of the population living in extreme poverty with the "Facebook 1h donation"... But if you donate an hour of your Facebook, LinkedIn, and Pin It time; we reach 35% of the population living in extreme poverty.

Mr. Zuckerberg, please build a plugin now that allows us to donate 1 hr. or more of our Facebook Time to i.e. The World Bank.

Could work like this: corresponding 1hr. revenue transferred and settled by each ones local tax account directly to the World Bank. The "Facebook 1hr. donation" project could have its own Facebook page showing how the World Bank spends every dollar, online. Each donor would have a "Red Poverty Pin" attached to their Facebook page showing their monthly participation.

Social Consciousness would be Social Media involved in the reduction of poverty and consequently the world's population as well as global warming.

So how proud would you be when you meet Bono and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim within 5 years? Knowing that social media and Facebook put an end to extreme poverty...

Regards

Richard

PS Everybody, please help me to spread this letter, so we can reach the decision makers. It is your first step in this project :)