Thursday, 27 February 2014

My mad fat virtual life


I’d be the first to admit I’m guilty of giving a little too much of myself to social media at times. Be it updating my status, tweeting or posting photos on Instagram.
So watching my mad fat diary which is set in the 90s this week and remembering that the likes of Facebook and Twitter were still just a megabyte on the horizon back in the days of my youth had  me reminiscing to a time when socialising was something  so much simpler.
It’s hard to believe it wasn’t so long ago that keeping in touch with mates meant ringing them on the landline and that we sent letters not texts. Innermost thoughts were confined to the pages of our diary and life was something we lived not offered up in a small box on a computer screen.
So I’ve made a pact with myself to sign out of my virtual life every so often now and go back to how things used to be because the detail of whats actually going on around you is worth so much more than a statement of 140 characters or less, don’t you think?
MEDWAY MESSENGER COLUMN 24/02/2014

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