re: #140 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
I suppose it goes to the way some approach the Internet versus other people.
Itās more than that. Itās hard to email every single person.
BCC: line of an E-mail. Put in one, two, one hundred E-mail addresses. If you want all of them to know what youāre writing, the To: or CC: lines will work for that.
With FB, one can stay in touch with numerous people and see what is going on in their lives and itās easy to keep others posted on you and your life.
As are all those other methods I mentioned.
Iām in a few secret communities on FB that helped me through deaths, my daughter, my divorce, etc. I wouldnāt have gotten that with just email. I wouldnāt have ever met many of these incredible people without it. It allowed me to know that an online friend and her son needed help when she was sent home on hospice to die. I needed to meet her in person and I had the skills to take care of her and actually do something for her. That never would have happened without FB.
I am also on āsecretā platforms (and not so secret ones) that have helped me with things (including the recent death of my sister-in-law), none of which are Facebook.
I received support here when my sister-in-law was dying, and with my step-father in the hospital now. (He went back to the hospital last night.)
I will certainly grant that Facebook is the eight hundred pound gorilla as far as connecting people goes ā¦ you can seek information from a whole lot of people very quickly there. But the idea that something could ānever happen without Facebookā seems to be a bit much.
Iāll leave off about Facebook.