FA Traditions Especially Relevant to the Use of the Internet and Social Media

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FA Traditions Especially Relevant to the Use of the Internet and Social Media

1. Our common welfare should come first; personal recovery depends on FA unity.

4. Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or FA as a whole.

5. Each group has but one primary purpose—to carry its message to the food addict who still suffers.

6. An FA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the FA name to any related facility or outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property, and prestige divert us from our primary purpose.

10. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous has no opinion on outside issues; hence the FA name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

11. Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films.

12. Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, every reminding us to place principles before personalities.