Great Escape
The Perils of Being a Facebook Moderator
I didn’t ask for the job, but I didn’t quit it, either
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5 min readAug 21, 2018
I was at the grocery store when my phone started blowing up. I already knew what it was. Anytime I got more than a couple notifications in a row, I could almost guarantee it was a group chat of moderators overseeing a small, private Facebook group for sharing…