Thanks to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.Noemi Lagman, a 21-year-old student of Asia Pacific College who went missing since Friday, has been found.
According to the poster which shared simultaneously on Twitter and Facebook, Noemi left her home at Multinational Village in Parañaque on January 6 at around 9am. She was carrying P33,000 for her
She was last seen at the entrance of the said village.
Noemi Lagman
Four days later, after netizens helped the family find her through leads posted on Twitter and Facebook, Noemi was finally found.
Following is the family’s official statement:
January 10, 2012 11:10PM
Noemi Lagman has been found and she is now safe. Our deepest gratitude to all of you who helped us.
For the final time regarding this issue, I hope you can click once more your likes, comments, and share buttons. Everyone deserves to know. It was through social media where we got the first lead and it has played a vital role in connecting all of us.
We were advised by the authorities that information on how and where she was found be kept confidential for her and her family's security and privacy. We ask for your understanding on this matter.
As of this writing, there are 213 likes, 111 comments, 96 tags, and a staggering 8,114 shares on my facebook wall on posts regarding Noemi. A total of 8,534 online activity. We ask the Lord to bless 8,534 times all of you who helped us during this time. This does not include online and offline activities that I could not quantify anymore.
It has been an exhausting and emotionally draining 100 hours of non-stop search, the longest 100 hours of our lives, something we will never forget. Finally I want to share with all of you the lesson we learned from this experience: love your family, love them tirelessly, love them unconditionally, because at the end of the day, it's what matters.
Marami pong salamat at pagpalain po kayong lahat.
Allan Lagman Capulong (Noemi's Kuya Pinsan)
Noel Lagman (Noemi's Father)
This was not in the news, but it proves the shared powered of Netizen, especially users of social.networking sites
