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Is it appropriate to follow my psychiatrist on social media?

Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2012, at 4:32 PM ET

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This week, Slate's tech columnist Farhad Manjoo and Dear Prudence advice columnist Emily Yoffe debate the question: Is it appropriate you and your psychiatrist to follow each other on Twitter or Facebook. How about friending a family member’s shrink?

What's your opinion about this week's manners dilemma?

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Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society.

Emily Yoffe is a regular Slate contributor. She writes the Dear Prudence and Human Guinea Pig columns. You can send Dear Prudence questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.) Subscribe to Emily Yoffe's Facebook page.