Since the age of the internet began and social media became a trend, people have been divided into those who instantly liked the app and those who gradually disliked it.
People who have tried social media and gradually shunned it claim that since it entered our lives, people nowadays spend less time communicating. Some believe that it has estranged most of us, and it generally has no positive impact on people’s lives.
However, there are instances when people who generally dislike social media prove it can be helpful sometimes.
Such as the case of 2 brothers who found their long-lost older twin sisters through a cardboard sign they posted on Facebook. In 2018, brothers Matt Shaw and Ed Clark finally met after discovering they were siblings who were adopted by different families after they were born.
Ed, who lives in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, was contacted by Matt, who lives in South Carolina, after taking a DNA test. Matt found his long-lost brother through the Ancestry DNA website and immediately messaged him. Soon, they finally met and could not believe how fortunate they were to have found each other after years of being apart.
Soon, they learned they (possibly) had older twin sisters who may have also been adopted by a different family. Hence, they planned on how they could find their twin sisters and reach out to them ASAP.
“I had seen other people doing something similar to it, and we brought it up and said maybe we should do this Facebook thing,” Matt said in an interview with KDKA, “and when I met Ed for the first time, we said, well, let’s do it, we’re here. So, we wrote the sign. Never in a million years would I have dreamed that it would have done what it did.”
Ed and Matt wrote a sign about having twin sisters who were adopted in Ellwood City, PA. In the cardboard sign, they included their year of birth (1968) and their biological mother’s name (Sally).
They posted a photo of them holding the sign on Facebook and see how it would turn out. Almost instantly, the post received several numbers of people who shared the brothers’ story. Thousands of social media users shared their plea, and finally, their twin sisters, Donna and Dana, were found.
The twins were surprised to discover they had more siblings. They never imagined that something such as this would have happened.
“We were just shocked… because we had no clue. I mean, you have no clue. And then to find out not only do you have one sibling, you got three more,” Dana said.
After finding their sisters online, the 4 siblings met, along with their families and the twins’ adoptive parents. The day was filled with excitement!
The entire family was excited to meet for the first time after being apart for many years. They all agreed to create new family traditions and make up for all the years they lost. It was the most memorable family reunion of our time!
The story of the siblings is a testimony that connecting through social media may reunite long-lost family members through the help of other online apps, and thousands of other families have reunited and proven that the internet can reconnect people who live opposite each other across continents.
▼ Watch the video below and witness how the siblings reunited after years apart!
Screenshot images and Video credits: © CBS Pittsburgh/YouTube
Facebook posts credits: © Matt Shaw and Peggy Clark
