ImTooYoungForThis.org is a website in which young people that had gone through the hard experience of suffering the cancer disease can publish their stories in a blog-type system.
The website consists on eight main features, the most outstanding of them are: myspace, facebook, blog and donate. Through this features, the users can communicate between them, and talk about the disease they have all suffered, and can also talk to people that are suffering it at the moment and people that aren’t suffering it but know people who are. Users can also make donations to the website in order for them to continue their cause. A very good website.
ImTooYoungForThis.org In Their Own Words
“Ranked TIME Magazine Best 50 Websites 2007, The I’m Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation For Young Adults (i[2]y) is a global support community for young adults affected by cancer who get busy living and rock on. Our mission is to end isolation and improve quality of life by providing ‘one-stop’ access to hard to find resources, peer support and social networks. We use music and the arts to make it hip to be a survivor and talk openly about stupid cancer by advocating on behalf of 200+ young adult support resources and 1 million+ survivors* (ages 15-39) and their caregivers who are living with and beyond cancer worldwide.”
Why ImTooYoungForThis.org It Might Be A Killer
It might be a killer because it joins poeple that have suffered going through the cancer experience in a very user friendly website.
Some Questions About ImTooYoungForThis.org
How does the website use the donation money that they receive? Do the people that suffered cancer wan’t to remember the experience?
Updates
In just six months. i[2]y has earned accolades from the oncology community for establishing a global presence and filling gaps to rectify public health inequities faced by the young adult population, aged 15-39, now estimated at over 1 million survivors by the National Cancer Institute. The i[2]y initiative has quickly developed an affiliate network of 200 cancer centers, mobilized thousands of survivors into an international social network, organized the first arts coalition of young musician/survivors and produced a first-of-its-kind pioneering live, weekly, interactive social radio broadcast–The Stupid Cancer Show. 







