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# Quirky social media story of the week: #4
- URL: https://interhacktives.mymagic.page/quirky-social-media-story-of-the-week-4/
- Published: 2012-01-10T17:02:28.000Z
- Updated: 2012-01-10T17:02:28.000Z
- Author: MsAntoniaK
- Tags: News, community spirit, Facebook, Molly the pug, neighbourhood, Twitter, #Migrated-1793717950415, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-11-03 14:59

Antonia Kanczula

On Friday 6 January, I was sat at my computer, as I often am, when a tweet popped up from my community website about a burglary in the area;

![](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly1.png "molly1")

I clicked back to the site to read more - a neighbour had seen Molly the pug being carried away by two men and reported it to the police;

[![](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly21.png?w=300 "Molly2")](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly21.png?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page)

I then went back to Twitter to RT the owner's appeal;

[![](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly31.png?w=206 "molly3")](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly31.png?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page)

Over the weekend, hundreds of people, including celebs like Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton, did exactly the same thing;

![](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly4.png "molly4")

A Facebook page was launched. Media outlets picked up on the story, locally and nationally;

[![](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly5.png?w=300 "molly5")](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly5.png?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page)

It seems all this combined exposure, pressured Molly’s nappers into releasing her and enabled her to be identified by a conscientious member of the public, who found her wandering a couple of miles away in Enfield;

[![](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly6.png?w=300 "molly6")](http://www.interhacktives.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/molly6.png?ref=interhacktives.mymagic.page)

We are constantly hearing about the death of community spirit. And how online networking has destroyed real-life communication. But this pearl of an incident encapsulates why these beliefs are patently untrue. Okay, the modern concept of togetherness might not be the leaning-over-the-garden-fence type of old but what we have today with social media can be just as, if not more, powerful.