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Today, I made the momentous decision (well, momentous to me, anyway) to deactivate my Facebook account. Now this may not seem like a big deal to some people. I know people who have never had or desired to have a Facebook account. But it is a big deal to me.

It is a big deal because I am an expat who lives far away from my home country and my family. Who has made and left friends behind in many different parts of the world. Who is parent to a special needs child, where my only source of support and information is the group I am connected to via Facebook. All these are, and were my reasons for relying so much on this social media tool since I created my account nearly ten years ago.

Over the past few years, through the constant moving and being a first-time parent and finding out that our child will have mental and physical challenges for the rest of his life, Facebook was where I turned to first. Because that's where I could connect with most of my family and friends all at once. I…

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