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[Ms. Toad]

41. Facebook has been remarkably useful.

Twitter less so, and I don't have a WhatsAp account.

I use facebook to keep up with family and friends. I live 1000 miles away from where I grew up - and I'm not much for phones or letters. I've also developed a large collection of electronic friends with whom I share the same (sometimes rare) illnesses. So I have deep bonds with everyone (prior to my current job) that I am friends with on facebook - but we don't necessarily share political opinions. I've had some remarkable conversations with people that I'm stuck with, for one reason or another, about politics. I've had a number of people who are conservatives that I've had conversations with about abortion and health care who tell me that I'm the only liberal they talk to, because we actually have conversations. At times they get overwhelming, so I just don't respond, but when I'm able, they get a little peek at someone they perceive as rational who supports different policies than they do.

In my current job, once my students graduate, I accept friend requests from them - which is a different (but also interesting) dynamic.