Old people complain nowadays about how social media takes away a person’s privacy. They say that nothing is sacred or secret anymore. It’s too easy for anybody to voice their opinions by simply touching their finger to the glass screens of their artificial lives. As my mother would always tell us, “You don’t air your dirty laundry in public.”
But back in the day, if I farted on one side of town, she knew about it before the smell had faded away. And what is less secret than having your underwear flapping around in the wind for everybody to see.
Jerry Brotherton
Mostly fiction mixed with a little poetry and a smidgen of real life drama
😂 nice one
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Thank you my friend.
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I do wonder if those posting yet more selfies of themselves wearing nothing more than a few triangles of Lycra will still be doing so in another twenty years … or whether they too will end up like the Katie Price’s of the world, sad and desperate … am I too cynical for words?!
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I know several friends of mine that every selfie they post seems to be a shot of their cleavage. These women are 50 and 60 years old. At least the ‘Duck Face’ craze has seemed to have faded away.
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50 and 60 years old?!! Crikey!
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This is true. That’s why I try to release just enough of me to seem like a real human, but not enough that other people feel like they have ownership of my life. I like to keep people at arm’s length even in social media 😉
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I should heed your advise. I am a social butterfly it seems.
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Each to their own! Maybe I just worry too much
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Yes, Jerry, impossible to keep a secret from my mum’s 6th sense too.
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Especially since my immediate family was one tenth the population of the town. Throw in the aunts, uncles, cousins and such, it was more like half.
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I think we grew up in similar small towns, where everyone knew your business no matter how hard you tried to hide it.
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I think sometimes they knew about it before it actually happened.
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