A family of four believe they have hit on the next viral fundraising craze by visiting their Facebook friends in person.
David and Debs Hurst, along with sons Daniel and Darley, plus collie Colin, have put their lives on hold to travel around the UK and Europe, visiting as many of their 500 online friends as possible along the way.
For each person they see they are taking a face-to-face selfie, donating £2 to Cancer Research and challenging the friend to do the same with someone on their own Facebook list.
Like the Ice Bucket Challenge, which raised millions of pounds for Motor Neurone charities, the idea is for each person nominated to ask others to undertake the challenge, donating to charity as they do so.
The couple downsized their Devon home to buy a camper van and deferred Daniel’s entry to primary school before setting off three weeks ago.
On Saturday they arrived in Scone intending to meet John Morton contact number 100 in the Face2Facebook project.
Among their friends are Dan Skinner, better known as Angelos Epithemiou from the comedy quiz show Shooting Stars.
They intend to tour Scotland before setting off around Europe, returning home in January.
David, who is self-employed, said: “Our Face2Facebook project started to form three years ago after we lost a relative unexpectedly to cancer.
“My uncle developed a sore throat and died three weeks later from oesophageal cancer. A year after this a best friend took his life.
“These emphasised to us that the most important thing in life is family and friends, so we hope that as well as us seeing many of our friends and family, we’ll also inspire others to do so to celebrate friendship and everyone raises money for charity as they do.
“We want people to see not just a friend but a friend they know they are long overdue to see.
“We hope it really takes off and people go to see their long-lost friends while raising money for charity.”
The family will travel to the Continent in November, visiting Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland.
Follow their progress on Facebook or Twitter.