These days, it’s a given that everyone is on social media. Except my mum. The real question is, what are they doing there? My Facebook friends range from networking contacts, to my friend’s children to – wait for it – actual friends! You know, the ones that I occasionally see in real life.
I love the fact that social media enables me to keep up with the lives of people that I don’t see all the time. Some of them live far away. With others it’s just that the demands of life with small children means that we can’t meet up like we used to. I can send new baby congratulations to Canada and catch up with other school mums when the kids are in bed. A dear friend once told me that Facebook had saved her from interminable evenings looking at people’s holiday photos. I couldn’t possibly comment…
