Facebook Ruined High School Reunions And Can We Stop Publicizing Our Lives on Facebook Yet?
I want to not know how and what people are doing again.
One of my best friends from high school posted a picture of her son’s rock band. He’s killing it in Europe and Africa. She’s European and her husband is African so that’s where her son travels and plays with his band.
I had this information about my friend before Facebook, but now, anyone from the gas station with a Facebook account could tell you.
My friend hesitated to put it on Facebook. She works in war-torn and environmentally devastated countries following a crisis and beyond. If you see a country under attack or destroyed by flooding or earthquakes, she gets on a plane.
She’s not a tourist. She’s been showing up and rebuilding cities for thirty years.
She hesitated to promote her son’s band because she’s thinking about her friends in these countries who are starving, dying of disease and barely surviving. It felt futile jumping onto a platform like Facebook and bragging about her son’s band.
But, her son is 16 and he wanted her to promote his band. She’s also a mother. She wants to support her son — yet, she is also grossed out by the LOOK AT…
