•January 27, 2016•

By Jeri C McFarland
NP Guest Columnist

Facebook, like everything else, has its pros and cons.

For lonely, single people in a small town such as Sullivan, Facebook helps connect you to the entire world.

Fran had had a computer for some time but had not joined a Social Network.  Sooner than later her curiosity and loneliness got the best of her, and Fran posted her profile pic on Facebook and began seeking friends.

First, she only befriended school classmates and neighborhood acquaintances.  Then she began getting friend requests from people she didn’t know and some of them were single men.  Fran had been married for a brief time right out of high school, and no children were born to this union.

There weren’t many single men in her small town so she became more enamored with her Facebook relationships.  Fran had started communicating with two different men who were keeping her more than interested.  One was from Pennsylvania and one, a guy from the Chicago area, was in the military stationed in Nigeria.       Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.