Tag: social media

I just deactivated my account on a social media site, and I am angry. I am angry at multiple things. Was I just another brick in the wall? It depends on your perspective. I have been using the internet for a fairly long time, or as some prefer to say, I have been online for ages. The internet made it possible to connect with people more easily. Back when I was a child in the stone age, I wrote messages on paper, put the completed message in a folder piece of paper called an envelope, and sealed the envelope. I then wrote a name and an address on the envelope, affixed a stamp to the envelope, and handed the whole thing over to a service called a post office that had its own special building. The stamp was a means by which I could pay the post office for transporting…