A thought…

Think I need an early night

 

Okay so not so much a thought as the culmination of many thoughts.  Arguments aside over exactly what the best phone is I recently bought me eldest the New Samsung on the basis that he promised to stay off of social media.  Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and whatever else I may choose to broadly lump into that category.  I will then, every couple of years, upgrade him to the newest handset assuming he has stayed off it all.

He happily agreed, and whilst in the future he may not, for now I think it is something worthwhile because I am pretty convinced that the damage done by social media outweighs the benefits.  There will be studies I am sure, but I am not basing it on them I am basing it on my experience and the pressure it puts on people and the need to broadcast ones life click by click.

There is an irony in blogging about this I am sure, and my blogs do post to twitter, but it is something I am happy I did because I think the kids will be better people for it in the long run.  No one needs to know what he had for tea or where he has just checked in to and he does not need to see only the selective best bits of someone elses life to compare his to.

I’d much prefer he simply lives life than spectates…

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Author: Michael

Husband, dad,(ex)programmer, comic collector and proud Yorkshireman. I have no idea why im here or why im writing but i rather enjoy it. no great fan of punctuation;

14 thoughts on “A thought…”

  2. Let me know how this works out for you. I have teens who wold kill for their phones for the sole purpose of social media access. I guess they can text, but they want in those platforms at some point. I like your angle though.

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  5. My valet totally agrees, as does my chauffer, that social media presents the best of people and leaves out the troubles. Unless it’s attention. Okay, I’m changing my answer. Ms. Ladderly, can you strike that and replace it with this? No, don’t include… no! Don’t write this part. Start writing… now! Social media presents the extremes of life, good and bad, and leaves out the mundane middle, tricking everyone into thinking of life as a roller coaster instead of a sailboat. Yes, Ms. Ladderly. That will be all. Why are you still writing? Oh, okay.

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  6. Ha…your hired help are forever posting your highs and lows on social media have you not seen? What you did with that dachshund was highly irregular and I doubt very much that bedding was salvageable.

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  7. But my gardener had sandwiches for quite some time, and was quite topiarily inspired, so all was well.

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  8. My first thought was “good luck with that, buddy!” I’m not sure how you would enforce such a thing because there are so many places on the internet that have social media aspects, whether we realize it or not. I wish you all the luck in the world, truly.

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