re: #298 A Mom Anon

I use Facebook for communication with my son on the autism spectrum. Because that’s how he’s comfortable communicating what is going on so I don’t worry. Like right now he’s with a carload of fellow dudes in Nashville seeing Iron Maiden. Instead of texting and calling me in front of his buddies, he can post things there and I know that he’s fine. I see no other online way to do that that works for him. And I know I’m not the only one who has a similar thing happening with their older kids on the spectrum. So it works and I am not asking him to figure out something else.

I lurked on this argument because my feelings are known by now but FB helps me as well. I have a huge extended family including some who live overseas. FB for all its warts keeps that possible and without it I never would have met my cousins last summer and you know through being friends with me on FB how much that trip meant to me.