The Next Web: Could Facebook be the new 'face on the milk carton' for missing children?

Release Date: December 15, 2010 This content is archived.

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An article on The Next Web about the role social media such as Facebook can play in locating missing children reports that UB graduate students have created a location-based app for Facebook called "AMBER Alert: Project Blue," which notifies users when an AMBER Alert goes out within 50 miles of the city listed on their profile as their current location.

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