The Only Good Thing Left About Facebook
Some people believe that the company’s scandals are reason enough to quit the platform. Others have found one compelling reason to stay.
When Briana Goodman gave birth to twins in 2015, she found herself surrounded by people telling her the best way to take care of her newborns. Any time she would bring up using a sleep-training method that encourages babies to cry it out and self-soothe, everyone seemed to have a judgmental opinion to share. But there was one place that Goodman, a clothing reseller in a suburb of Baltimore, could always turn when she wanted to talk about her preferred tactic: a Facebook group called “Support Group for ‘Moms On Call’ Method.”
Goodman was overjoyed to find a group of like-minded women who felt they could freely share their experiences without fear of being criticized. The group “was a very, very large part of my life
