I have trouble understanding where one comes from, posting the A to Z of one’s life on social media.
I mean, this is sharing your private thoughts, ideas, photos, marriage and more with millions of strangers who may not even understand where you are coming from.
I have seen WhatsApp statuses of people talking about what they had for breakfast, lunch and dinner; their children and all their activities and schools; their spouses, trips, bedrooms… eh!
Maybe I am the only one paranoid about the number of haters and bad people lurking in the shadows. Why are you giving strangers ideas about your net worth, attracting undue attention to yourself and family, or even bringing the tax man to your doorstep?
Even the Bible urges us to be “shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves” (Mathew 10:16). The pressures of social media are turning us into something else. Those who have no trouble adjusting to that new normal are living their lives off Instagram, Facebook, name it, and by extension transferring that pressure to their followers.
Well, I have learnt not to believe everything I see on social media. But again, why this need to live your life on X and bare all and expose your children to all kinds of weirdos?
However good your spouse is, exercise wisdom; I have seen women determine that they want to be ‘part of a good family’ as co-wives, after seeing the ‘core wife’ repeatedly post about her generous, romantic and virile husband.
And the lengths some people will go to, to get what they want…!
Why are you exposing your children on the Internet in these dark times with all kinds of perverts online? Do we forget that the Internet never forgets?
I have social media pages, but I honestly struggle with what to post, because I feel every photograph is too private for other eyes; every moment too cherished to desecrate it by sharing it with strangers; every thought too complex for everyone to understand it the way I want them to understand it.
But to each their own. I wish we could just give minors the choice of whether they want to be on social media or not; don’t post your children until they are old enough to make that decision for themselves.
There are a lot of jokes, memes, cryptic sayings that you can share; just keep your private life private. My humble, unsolicited two cents.
malita@observer.ug
Do they listen, or they think its normal