I help moderate a really large LGBTQ group on Facebook, and let me tell you, I feel for you. Even though our group (LGBTQ Advocate) is explicitly queer, and even though we explicitly exist to support our peers, we still get people who join the group just to harass transgender and gay people. To post Bible verses about God condemning is to hell. To post nasty personal insults. You name it. Sometimes I can't even keep up with it. I have to rely on members to report negative comments.

So I can only imagine how bad things are in a Facebook group that isn't explicitly LGBTQ.

It's funny. All of us just want to leave normal lives, right? Go to work. Go to dinner. Get together with our friends.

And yet we're faced with people who just can't or won't mind their own business. Even harassing strangers on social media.

Maybe social media is not the best place to be. Especially when it reminds you of what people in public are thinking, even when they don't say it.

But you know, creating queer friendship circles is tremendously positive. And social media helps us do that.

It's tough, isn't it?