Share a link to our platform on your social media or simply tell your friends and loved ones all about Adopted.com and the many benefits of the world's largest adoption reunion registry. Word of mouth is a powerful thing. The more people this information reaches, the more likely it is to be of tremendous help to someone who truly needs it. And the more chances that a simple social media post will be the opening act to someone's successful reunion story.

If you feel that our platform has had a positive impact on your life and that Adopted.com has played a meaningful, supportive role in your adoption reunion journey, encourage others to register. Call up the people around you whose lives have been touched by adoption and recommend our unique platform to them. And don't forget to share the most important part: that our service is based entirely on voluntary adoption records, which means that if they can find their birth family here, it's because they were also actively seeking reunion. This can set their mind at ease and make them more confident in searching for their biological relatives.

Nothing inspires more than authenticity and lived experience. Sometimes, all that an adoptee still in doubt needs to feel prepared for searching for their birth family is a powerful, hopeful story of an adoption reunion journey. So if this feels right for you, don't hesitate to share your story with the world. On a website, blog, or video, for everyone to hear or in person, in quiet confidence, your account is still meaningful and valuable. And it doesn't even matter if your adoption reunion story did not have the fairytale ending you were hoping for. The journey itself should be celebrated for the sheer courage it took and the strength and insight that it brought. You are an inspiration, and your light can make others shine.

In a world where everyone is talking about everything all the time, it may seem like another voice can't make a significant difference. However, every advocate matters much more than it seems. Here is how your support helped:

• More members mean more chances of reunion - every new person who registers on our website can be somebody's long-awaited match. Our platform relies strongly on a steadily increasing member pool, reaching far and wide, to improve everyone's chances of finding the birth family they are searching for. Members talking about our services is one of the best ways to help new people learn about us, sign up for free, and hopefully be instantly matched with the birth relatives they lost to adoption.

• Raising awareness touches hearts and minds - many understandable fears hold adoptees back from searching for their birth family. However, hearing from someone who has overcome them can be the encouragement they need to get their own adoption journey started. And being introduced to a comfortable, simple and effective way to begin their adoption reunion search can be the decisive factor that helps them take the first step.

• A personal appeal is always the most powerful - every day, we are bombarded by ads for miracle solutions to all our problems and by unsolicited advice from influencers. That is why having someone we know and trust share what truly worked for them with us can be a godsend. Sharing your personal experience of searching for your birth family using Adopted.com lets your friends and family know that they can trust us and that their adoption reunion journey does not need to be as difficult and expensive as they may have thought.

Here are other suggestions to continue promoting adoption reunions:

• Support a local adoption rights organisation which fights for open access to adoption records.

• Print QR codes for Adopted.com on cards, stickers or flyers, and leave some at your local shops, gyms or entertainment venues, for a wider reach (with the owners' permission).

• Organise a human library event with other people who are searching for their birth family or have experienced an adoption reunion. This involves a get-together where the participants are “books” that others can “borrow”. “Readers” sit down with the “books” for 15 minutes and listen to the story of their adoption reunion.