Through Facebook Japanese users experienced the Internet as a medium using their real identities, real emotions, not avatars with others who came forward as human beings without masks who sincerely wished to express sorrow, condolences and uplift for renewed strength for the re-building of devastated Japanese communities.
Mary Stanton, author of the definitive Liuzzo biography, "From Selma to Sorrow, " says Viola Liuzzo discovered that a secretary where she worked had been laid off without severance pay.