Yes, You Can Get Sober On Facebook: Put It In Timeline

Recovering alcoholics and addicts can commemorate their progress using the timeline submenu item labeled "health and wellness," especially helpful when combined with the privacy settings for visibility only by likeminded folks.

Many have documented the widespread use of Facebook while intoxicated, but those who make New Year’s resolutions to sober up go uncounted.

A submenu in timeline provides a convenient way to commemorate recovery from addiction,especially when the privacy settings are rigged to limit visibility to likeminded folks.

The international organization with the greatest success in helping people overcome addictions has “a tradition of anonymity at the level of press, radio and film.”

That policy has had individual members of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12-step recovery groups guessing about what to do with respect to Facebook, especially given the widespread misunderstanding of the privacy settings

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