Panic set in next. I realized I had put way too many social media eggs in the Facebook basket. I'd used Facebook daily as an editor (currently at The Good Men Project ) to promote content of writers I was working with, as well as my own. And sure, while I have my Twitter account growing steadily, that's nothing compared to nearly 4000 FB friends and over twenty FB groups I belong to. Now, in a Facebook policing error, I was literally out of work for a month—not to mention out of virtual touch with people I had gotten into the networking habit with, and who even though they were not real life connections, had begun to feel like real friends.