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Old Aug 29, 2018, 12:10 PM
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yup my own therapists past and present have found me on facebook. the interesting part in all this is sometimes they were not up front and I cant blame them I mean how many of us have googled our treatment providers to see what their credentials are, what the reviews are about them and happened to find our treatment providers social media pages ... facebook twitter, linkn, and sometimes their own personal websites, family photos, home and cell phone numbers.... its countless what you can find on the internet about treatment providers.

my point I dont get upset when my treatment provider finds my social media pages. we just have a good laugh over this post or that one, this pic or meme or that one...

line in the sand is that its the internet. if a person has an email account, amazon, facebook what ever its easy to find and up for public viewing..............Unless....... people remember to check their settings frequently and make sure their settings are the way they want them to be...

like one of my treatment providers and I talked about on this issue, if treatment providers didnt want to be found on the internet then they would not have any social media pages, they would not have an email account, they would not purchase any thing online and they would not comment on anything or "like" anything. or even advertise their business..... in other words go back to the days of before computers..... which of course is pretty much impossible, unless you are homeless, with no vehicle, no cell phone, no library account... no anything. not even mentioned in documents that aare now accessible online.

my treatment providers and I just accept that the world we live in includes the internet and we are going to purposely and accidentally find information about each other. its just how things are now.

My treatment providers and I also live by the moto of if its something I dont want my friends, family, my treatment providers the whole world to know about me then it doesnt belong posted anywhere on the internet. the internet is like an open post card going through the postal service, anyone who picks up that card can read whats on it.