In addition to possible health apps, the company's also reportedly creating online support communities to connect users afflicted with the same illnesses. That's apparently a product of employees' observation that people tend to look for advice about their ailments on the social network.
While Facebook has long been looking into offering healthcare apps and services, what drove it to take things seriously was its wildly successful organ donor status launch in 2012. Sure, people might have just signed up to donate their organs for the bragging rights, but at least that launch day caused registrations to skyrocket to 13,054 from the daily average of 616.
