We lost our dog a little over a year ago and I posted about him going missing online along with the most recent video of him I had taken. That post ended up get

We lost our dog a little over a year ago and I posted about him going missing online along with the most recent video of him I had taken. That post ended up getting reshared 8,000 times, the video got 215,000 views, and I was getting contacted by random people in the region constantly about how they were keeping an eye out looking for my dog, or sharing any info they thought they might have (there was some dogs found nearby that looked similar but weren't him, for example). We got a couple sightings through it, although ultimately we found him four days later after someone spotted him and then saw one of our lost dog posters a couple of miles away and called us, so he wasn't found directly by it. I even had people I only considered to be internet friends tell me how they spent time after work driving around looking for him, sometimes for a lot longer than would be reasonably expected. So, I didn't really consider social media to be all that useful before I had the scariest thing in my life happen to me (so far at least), and then I discovered people online really can do more than just give a 'Like' or a 'Sad Face'.