Chronically Vintage and I are both on Facebook now!

For many years I watched from the sidelines as millions (perhaps even billions at this point!) of people around the world joined Facebook. Yet for very personal reasons pertaining to a dangerous, extremely abusive ex who stalked and terrorized me long after I ended our relationship, I held off on joining (because I knew for a fact he was/is there). Often times people would ask me to jump on the Facebook bandwagon, but I couldn't bring myself to do so, fearing the nightmarish can of worms that I might open if I did.

Yet, even though nothing has changed in that regard, as 2012 wore on, I really began to feel like I was sick and tired of living under the fear that individual's potential actions were having on my life. After several heart-to-heart talks with Tony on this subject, I decided about a month ago that it was high time I finally joined Facebook. As always, I will be very careful and take whatever measures are needed (including deleting my account if it truly came to that) to try and ensure my personal safety there.

The decision to sign up didn't come lightly, and I'm still a little nervous about being someplace that I know that person is as well. Again though, I want to stop letting them impart that much fear into my life anymore, and stepping up to the plate, so to speak, by joining Facebook is certainly one small way for me to do that.

So now that we've got that rather heavy introduction out of the way, let's focus on all the delightful fact that at very, very long last, I'm on Facebook!

My personal account is Jessica Cangiano, and here's the fan page that I created for Chronically Vintage.

I would be touched and honoured if you added me as a friend and liked Chronically Vintage's page.

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A large part of the reason that I finally felt (as much as can be under the circumstances) comfortable joining Facebook is because I knew that I'd be surrounded by so many friends and loved ones there, and that those connections would (and certainly already have) help off-put my concerns a great deal.

I'm very happy and excited to be a part of Facebook after so many years, and truly look forward to connecting with many of you there. Thank you for letting me share this personal story and huge, huge thanks in advance for adding me and/or liking like Chronically Vintage's page.


*Edit* I just wanted to add, as I forgot to mention it above, that one of the first things I did when I joined Facebook was to block the person mentioned in this article. Thankfully he's the only individual I've had any reason to block so far.