I have become increasingly bored with Facebook. I think that by and large it is a useful and fun website, and that the benefits have been great for the last couple of years. However, I find that the endless stream of "Joe Bloggs likes....." updates are just creating more and more irritation. I'm sure that deep within the bowels of the website there is a way that I can customise it to prevent myself from having to read this rubbish, but it just seems to have got increasingly overcomplicated. There has been a lot of fuss in the press lately about he myriad privacy options that are causing increasing concern, but I think that generally...if you are going to use a social media website, there are always going to be some grey areas, and as I have learnt to my cost...if you don't want everyone to see something, just don't put it on the web. We are living in increasingly web based lives, and the younger generation who have never known life without the web or Facebook just take a lot for granted that we, perhaps do not. A relative told me yesterday that her brother had spent years creating and updating his family tree. A younger relative from the States asked for a copy of it, and much to the more senior relative's chagrin, the family tree appeared on line within weeks. Now quite why the older relative was annoyed, I am not sure, but I suspect that the younger generation have more of a culture of sharing of information. I have always been quite open about things, and I don't tend to keep much a secret, I have never understood the point, but there have been times lately when I wonder quite who is looking at what, and perhaps more importantly, why. I have a lot of the kids from my drama group as friends on Facebook, and I love the fact that I can communicate with them using their favoured medium. It is a more simple way of sending messages to all of them that email in many ways. However, as a result, I find that I am constantly having to curb my views and my language. Perhaps I should be pleased about this in some ways, but it feels like a restriction. I have decided that I will break the link between Twitter and Facebook from now on. This means that if I want to let off a bit of steam, and use more industrial language I can do so without the fear of offending the families of my customers. This assumes of course that they are not all following me on Twitter...It's all so complicated, I may just go back to carrrier pigeons.
Keith Badham
Director
Up-Stage Theatre Company
01525 630868
07595 053251
www.up-stage.co.uk
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