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to get rid of them, but they feel
like it’s so much a part of the
way that they are connected to
others,” Kidd said.

For all of its faults, however,
Facebook isn’t all bad, Lipkin
said. Last month, someone
posted on “Jewish Philadelphia”
asking for ways to help Afghan
evacuees, pointing people
toward HIAS PA and JEVS.

During the early days
of COVID, Ronit Treatman,
administrator of “Jews of
Northwest Philadelphia”
and “South Philly Jews,” saw
Facebook as a beacon of hope.

“It was the only window that
some people had to be with
other people, especially those
who live alone,” Treatman said.

Facebook has also made
it easier for admins to
moderate page traffi c and
avoid spam, allowing them to
select frequent users to post
automatically, circumventing
the manual approval process.

As someone who checks the
“Jewish Philadelphia” site
JEWISHEXPONENT.COM multiple times a day, Lipkin
can keep his role as the group’s
administrator in balance with
his full-time information
technology job.

Lipkin only witnesses polit-
ical spats or spam posts once a
month or so, and that isn’t why
he hopes to resign from his
administrative role. However,
he feels as though the group
hasn’t achieved the goal he had
in mind in 2008.

From what Lipkin has seen,
“Jewish Philadelphia” hasn’t
helped people make new
friends; it’s mostly a place for
people to promote their events.

Th ough useful and fulfi lling
a community need, Lipkin
said, it’s fallen short of his
goal of forging more profound
connections. “It’s not building commu-
nity as much as I might have
hoped that it would,” Lipkin
said. ●
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