Youth Worker Attempts to Meet 730 Of His Facebook Friends

Thought this story from this week’s Daily Mail was interesting. Sounds like something a youth worker would do, right?

A real social networker! Youth worker embarks on year-long mission to meet 730 of his Facebook friends in person
Daniel Shaw plans to meet 730 of his 1,103 Facebook friends in one year
Youth worker set himself challenge after being bet he ‘didn’t know’ all his virtual friends
The 38-year-old is raising money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association
Mr Shaw has so far met 129 friends in Manchester, Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent

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