Facebook to Start Posting Amber Alerts on Your News Feed

Facebook users in the U.S. will soon receive Amber Alerts to help find missing children who may be near them. Facebook is working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to send the alerts to users' mobile phones if they are in a search area where a child has been abducted. Facebook says people are already using its site to encourage their friends and family to help find missing children, and that several children have been reunited with their families as a result of information shared on the site. The Amber Alert warning system was started after the 1996 kidnapping and murder of a 9-year-old girl named Amber Hagerman in Arlington, Texas. Since then, more than 700 children have been found as a direct result of the alerts. The alerts are issued over TV and radio, on highway signs, as text messages, and over the Internet.