--- title: Facebook Photo Reunites Mom With Son Lost for 15 Years description: The last time Hope Holland saw her son, Jonathan, he was a curly-haired 3-year-old. For 15 years she never gave up her dream of being... canonical: https://time.com/3945770/facebook-mom-son-reunion/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-04T14:26:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:24.498Z og:title: Facebook Photo Reunites Mom With Son Lost for 15 Years og:description: The last time Hope Holland saw her son, Jonathan, he was a curly-haired 3-year-old. 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Facebook wants all its users to be able to create and upload content for virtual reality systems such as Oculus Rift._ by [K.C. Blumm / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## K.C. Blumm / People Contributor Jul 4, 2015 2:26 PM UTC by [K.C. Blumm / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## K.C. Blumm / People Contributor Jul 4, 2015 2:26 PM UTC The last time Hope Holland saw her son, Jonathan, he was a curly-haired 3-year-old. For 15 years she never gave up her dream of being reunited with her youngest son, who was kidnapped by his father, who shared legal custody, and taken to Mexico. On Wednesday, that long-awaited reunion happened, as the Campbell, California, woman wrapped her arms around her now-18-year-old, and it’s all because of a Facebook photo. “Happy,” was all Holland managed to say in an interview with [NBC Bay Area](http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Facebook-Photo-Helps-Campbell-Woman-Reunite-with-Kidnapped-Son-311521661.html)the next day, her voice choked with tears. “It’s been a long journey here.” Last year, Jonathan posted a childhood pic with his brother on Facebook, hoping that somehow his mother, who he had no memory of, or brother would find him. Holland explained how it all happened on a [Go Fund Me](http://www.gofundme.com/renuhope) page that was set up to raise money for their reunion. In January, she was signing up for a webinar on Facebook when she a picture of two little boys taking a bath caught her eye. “At first, my body responded with panic and excitement. Heart palpitations and sweat…my breathing out of control,” she wrote. She realized it was her children. “I was the one who had taken the picture, so I obviously could be certain that it was them. Tears uncontrollably fell down my face, my hands were shaking, my body was shaking…” she continued. She began checking out her son Jonathan’s Facebook page and messaged someone who was looking at the same photos she was scrolling through. That person put her in touch with Jonathan, and three days later they spoke on the phone for the first time. They talked for 80 minutes, and during their second conversation, her son brought up the idea of meeting her. ” I’m so happy and it’s a miracle and I never thought this would ever come, so it’s happy – extremely happy,” Holland [told ABC 10](http://www.10news.com/news/mother-son-reunited-after-15-years-apart) on Wednesday, shortly after their emotional reunion. Jonathan will spend two months with his mother before heading back to Mexico to finish his senior year of high school but plans to return to California after graduation. This [article](http://www.people.com/article/mother-son-reunite-15-years-kidnapped-facebook-hope-holland-jonathan) was originally published on [People.com](http://www.people.com) ## Transcript Status updates on Facebook could soon feel much more real. Facebook is said to be working on new apps that will give the site a virtual reality twist. Speaking at Recode's code media conference, Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox said, VR content will eventually be something anyone can create and upload to Facebook. I think the version of the world where you're sending, you know, a fuller, immersive picture of what you're doing. And you think people are gonna be creating that, that experience? Totally. Absolutely. Or are they gonna rely on publishers to do it. This has been part of the plan since Facebook plunked down $ 2 billion for virtual reality head set maker Oculus. As Mark Zuckerberg put it, imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online. But entire experiences and adventures. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was a bit less poetic at the consumer electronic show this year. I don't think it's going to be Facebook the social network in VR, but people are narcissists. And they want people to see what they think are their amazing lives. When that will happen is still up in the air. Consuming that kind of content, much less creating it, requires specialized hardware that's no where near mainstream yet. Consider Oculus, which has two rift development kits for early adopters and programmers. It cranked out more than 60, 000 of the first prototype before production stopped, and Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe says more than 100, 000 of the second version have shipped as of February 2015. So we'll round it up and call it 200, 000 Rifts in the wild. Compare that to the user base of Facebook as of the fourth quarter 2014, 1. 39 billion monthly active users. Only about 200 million of them access the site on a traditional computer, which as of right now is required to run a Rift headset. Today's 200, 000 odd Rifts divided by 100 million Facebook users represents one- tenth of 1 % of Facebook's desktop users. How these back of the envelope calculations will change depends in part on when Oculus consumer version hits shelves and how much it costs. 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