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I'd hesitate to blame Facebook because people in need use it to reach out to their community for support. If Facebook hate stems from rich healthy safe people b

• jerf 11y ago
  I'm sorry to have to inform you that you've stepped in it. Part of the reason why we get such bad news, which I tried to politely dance around, is the support groups we're on for our children's special needs. (Yes. Plural.) But, bizarrely, the real problem isn't those friends (she did basically ask for that, after all, and many of them are people we really know), it's the fact that by being so essentially random it gave my wife a lot of friends-of-friends, because the more serious special need is a genetic disease that results in an essentially random hodge-podge of all backgrounds and ethnicities. (The disease in question is generally a highly disadvantageous random mutation, and thus not tied to any particular ethnicity.) Take your cheap moral preening somewhere else, please.
  • manigandham 11y ago
    ... what? This is the life that happens to people - as you said either unfollow or use the firewall approach or dont use it at all. But how does that change what the parent said?