So while we're talking Facebook a sec, I wanna tell a story about how Facebook helped facilitate my ongoing trauma post-August 2017.
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My mental health in those weeks was bad. Really bad. Acute trauma and anxiety and depression from the death of Heather Heyer to the grievous injuries of my friends to the ongoing legal saga was taking its toll. And then Spencer came back. And then I got swatted.
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The only people coming to help were the same people who were in my boat: people stretched to their limits, pouring all their energy into caring for others instead of themselves, being the glue of the community. We were doing it all alone here. We still are.
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My best friend from high school, who stood by me at my wedding, never called.
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Ultimately, the pain of not hearing from them was too great, so I removed them, effectively severing those ties.
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And now, after those 6 months, I have but to wonder if they ever saw those pleas at all. Did they even know? Or did Facebook's algorithm decide to bury my posts and keep them away from their eyes?
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