Introducing the Off the Derech Facebook Group!

If you haven’t read Abandoning Eden’s auto-biographical post yet, you may have missed the fact that we created an Off the Derech Facebook group, just a few weeks ago

Actually, the original group was already created a while ago, but thanks to AE’s visionary prod, I upgraded it to the new Facebook Groups format. And so far, it has been a smashing success:

• Our group membership has grown from about 92 to almost 200 now
• In total, over 500 posts were created!
• There is even an Openly Off the Derech now for people who are more outspoken about their beliefs
• Rumor has it that there now even is a Facebook group for people who are On the Derech as a reaction to this group, but I wasn’t able to find it so far

It really seems that users are finding a home in the OTD FB group. Probably also because this is a closed group, respecting people’s privacy and security. If you would like to know more, please read our suggestions.

Some positive feedback we received so far…

“I really like what this group represents. I feel like I can express anything and its almost like having a very diverse open minded family. Someone somewhere always seems to pop up and have your back. I don't mean to be mushy or anything but Thanks... “ (Daphne)

“just want to say how great it is to have this group...so far been doing mostly browsing instead of posting, but it still gives me a lot of strength by reading all of your posts” (Jeff)

If you would like to join the group, just request to be added and we’ll take it from there.

Update: Our group has a shotlink called http://www.facebook.com/groups/offthederech/. Also, the On the Derech FB group, created as a reaction to our Off the Derech FB group is called http://www.facebook.com/groups/openlyon/.