I don't work at Facebook, but I have found it to be an essential political organizing tool. In my small city, Facebook is the public square. It's where policy

I don't work at Facebook, but I have found it to be an essential political organizing tool. In my small city, Facebook is the public square. It's where policy conversations happen. And it's how I've built relationships, both strong tie and weak tie, with any number of people I would never have had the chance to converse with pre-Facebook. It gives us a network with which to easily keep in touch, and with which to broadcast notify each other of policy developments and debate their merits. I recognize that Facebook writ large has deep problems. But in my local community, I can't imagine what would happen to our political dialog if it were to just disappear. It would be very, very hard to follow policy developments, remain plugged in to my local government, and to find like minded people to organize with.