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The revolution starts next Tuesday.

I'm wandering all over campus looking for you--can you check in with me if you are by a computer? Or did you walk to your sister’s school? When I pulled up at my son’s school at 4:00, I knew something was wrong. There were only a few cars in the parking lot, and no children were waiting outside or walking home.

In 2001, I was a young work-at-home mother playing around with coding basic html websites, and a fleeting thought passed my mind: what if I could create a website to share pictures and updates of my two beautiful boys with our family and friends? In fact, the American Psychiatric Association reported that in 2001, one in ten college students was addicted to the Internet. In the late 2000s, we started posting pictures, by the thousands, of our children online. And you created a new commandment of mommy righteousness: In 2012, in a gut wrenching intersection of a personal tragedy with a very public one, I shared a painful story about my own family on my anonymous blog.