The clocks have gone forward, it’s time for spring cleaning – and I know just where to start: your social feed.
Our friend A was visiting us from the UK a few weeks ago. I couldn’t have imagined the path the conversation would take when I casually asked her if she had given anything up for Lent.
The answer was yes; but instead of chocolate, or gin, or swearing, she was forsaking Facebook instead.
Specifically, she’d had enough of endless posts from people of their stage-managed, genetically modified, Photoshopped lives (I may be paraphrasing, but you get the gist.)
And you know what? I think she’s onto something. Continue reading