Mastodawn

A single mom, working at the truck stop, living at a motel asks for help with used toys for birthday gifts on a local FB group. My 18 year old has a pile of new in box art kits and science kits to donate to wherever. So I messaged the mom- you can have them all, you can choose what you want. So tomorrow my husband and I will drop off these kits for these kids.

It doesn't take much to help someone out. Maybe what they need, you are trying to get rid of. It's that easy.

#HelpPeople #community

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Cindy Sue

And, yes, I am on FB because of the community groups. I am in a local org and everything happens on those groups. Like it or not. That's where my community exists online.

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fan boy 🪭1d ago

@CindySue
That's the paradox.

Facebook offers services that are hard to replace, sometimes because they were the first ones offering the service.

So while folks understand that it's bad to stay on billion tech bro platforms it is not painless to just leave.

Unfortunately lots of the groups are toxic, fascist, anti science, ...

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Cindy Sue 1d ago

@notyourfanboy It's a hellscape, but until people realize there are other options out there, it's where the people are. I actually left it for 7 years, but when I became president of my org, I rejoined because I needed to be seen in the community.