The thing is, despite a very brief article on fox's local website, no indy news stations or publications picked up the story. Despite her moms attempts to get the story on the news, no one knew about it.
So her mom used facebook to raise awareness, creating a group where she posted updates on the story and called people out to help. I went out to the meeting at Douglas Park where we all passed out flyers to find Valerie, which i found out about via facebook. I also noticed some post about it on twitter, and I also posted the notice about Valerie missing on my Tumblr. After encouraging some popular blogs to reblog me to raise awareness, the post went viral. it now as a little under 3000 notes, mostly reblogs. When i read the notes i even noticed a lot of people from Indiana and even some who went to val's old school had reblogged it.
I was like... 3000 people have this missing notice posted on their blog and only one news station posted about it.
Social media is pretty amazing.
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