It all began one dark and stormy night.

But this isn’t a ghost story or a slasher flick—far from it.

This is the story of how a 41-year-old Plymouth woman hit bottom, lost her boyfriend and her job, and pulled herself out of the funk with the help of Facebook.

Wait…Facebook?

Yes, Facebook. The addictive, life-sucking, spy-creating, movie-worthy website where you and your friends harass each other with requests for cows, mobsters, help with rustlers, see your horoscope, see your cat’s horoscope, feed your pet, bad advice, good advice, and to hook them up with the cute guy/girl your sister knows. Facebook is wonderful in its ability to connect you with long-lost friends, and horrid in its amazing ability to connect you with people you’ve managed to avoid for the past 20 years.

That Facebook.

The Fantastic, Fabulous, Funny and Factual Follies of a Facebook Friend, is Darcy Lee’s first book. The memoir, which Lee self-published through Infinity Publications, details her crumbling relationship with her then-boyfriend and the loss of her job, and how she found support and solace through Facebook.

So here was Lee, sitting at her computer wasting away her Friday night playing mindless Facebook games and waiting for Hurricane Earl to avoid White Cliffs Country Club, where she lives in her condo with her two cats.

It was Friday night and she had been invited to a party but the supposed hurricane kept her home. She played mindless games as her house as her life fell apart around her.

Lee was working for a non-profit organization doing fundraising. It was a job she’s done for a while, but this particular job wasn’t to her liking. In the past, she had worked for Pilgrim Hall Museum on Court Street, but the economy lead to cutbacks and she was laid off. Her current job wasn’t all it was cracked up to be.

Her personal life was on the rocks as well. She and her boyfriend were drifting apart and Lee admits that she took to spying on him via Facebook. That night Lee wasn’t spying; she was hiding from her Facebook friends. Although she was playing games all night, she stopped herself from posting her scores, or updating her status.

After hours, she came up for air and had an insight.

She realized what she’d been doing; hiding from people, some of whom she barely knew in “real life.”

The insight expanded and Lee contemplated the very idea of Facebook.

“I reflected on Facebook and how people and I react and interact about the things we’ve witnessed,” she said.

Many users use Facebook to vent and Lee was Her Facebook friends responded to her posts when she was down, or angry, or happy.

“It was like therapy,” she said.

She decided to continue the therapy and share her journey through the very random world of Facebook with the world.

Lee’s book The Fantastic, Fabulous, Funny and Factual Follies of a Facebook Friend, is available on Amazon or through Infinity Publishing at www.buybooksontheweb.com. She also happens to have a Facebook page: "Books by Darcy H. Lee."

With the help of Facebook, Lee pulled herself up, started her own business, Alden Charles Associates, a fundraising consulting firm, and let go of her ex. Months after the storm, Lee is on her feet again and she's still on Facebook.