People from across the country are coming together through Instagram to finish a massive quilting project started by a woman at 99 years old.
“Lower Duck Pond” is an online “town” with 87,000+ residents who create a community through improv-style conversations on the subreddit r/HaveWeMet. It’s quickly grown into an “internet escape where everyone’s your friend.”
In an essay for the New York Times, a disabled teen shared how social media is her lifeline: “Cultivating my own space on the internet helped me thrive outside the pigeonhole.”
When a cancer survivor’s mother shared a plea on Facebook for help celebrating her four-year-old’s birthday, the community stepped up in a special way.
@trailsandbears photographs and shares glamour shots of shelter dogs to inspire adoption of a new furry friend.
A woman found strength in other peoples’ stories when her husband fought brain cancer, so she created a website to help others like her share their stories.
Singer Kacey Musgraves visited a one-hour photo shop in LA that’s been around since the early 90s. After hearing that business has slowed over the years, the Grammy winner created an Instagram page for the shop and helped it get a wave of new customers.
A tweet about a highschool freshman’s rough first day of school went viral. Then his classmates stepped up, introduced themselves, and gave him new friends and lunch pals.
Social media is revitalizing the knitting and crocheting community by bringing knitters of all ages and backgrounds together online.
A new mom realized she wasn’t able to continue traveling long distances to meet up with her mommy support groups, so she started a virtual one on Facebook instead.
A schoolteacher posted the items she needed for the new school year online, and her community stepped up to help fill her classroom with joy.
A former child refugee recently reconnected with a kind stranger who gave her a bike when she was only 5 years old in a camp in the Netherlands after sharing her story and his photo on Twitter.