Life before social media and the cloud…

Most definitely do I remember life for the internet. When we were kids we didn’t have anything close to the internet. We had maybe our uncles or our cousins or some older person in our lives following us around with a video camera. To the point where we had to look around to make sure that Uncle so and so didn’t have the camera pointed at us. Thing is, we secretly didn’t want people following us around recording every single thing that we did because we used to get into trouble. We used to do things that we didn’t want everybody to know that we were doing. They used to let us go outside and run amok until the street lights came on other than that they were not interested in what we were doing and what was going on with us we rode our bikes all the way to the other side of town we made sure that we had some kind of water or some kind of substance while we were running around. We had these things called diaries and journals that we wrote our secrets inside of things that we did things that we didn’t want anyone else to know and if somebody got a hold of that and read it out loud I was the end of the world. we didn’t want anybody knowing our thoughts and what we’re doing and what we’re thinking and our hopes and our dreams. Now I can’t stop these kids from expressing every single thing that they want you to know about them, they don’t have secrets, they get butt hurt if you don’t read their blog or you don’t like all of their pictures on Instagram. I remember thinking when I first was introduced to the internet that this was going to be the most amazing thing in the world because we could connect with people from the other side of the world everything was right there so close. Now not so much. Now we have to worry about who our kids are talking to and why they’re talking to them. We literally have to worry about who their friends are where they came from how old they are and  are talking about things that we didn’t even know about til we were adults.