After all, without email or chat rooms or online search engines, I’d be totally lost, right? I’ve been giving this a lot of thought lately because sometimes the e-world I love soooo much lets me down. Like when I go into chat rooms and weird invaders show up and start bothering my friends and me (thank goodness for site monitors!). Like when someone spilled one of my secrets online and then everyone found out about it before I realized what was happening. I used to think that writing in my files was great because there wasn’t anything I couldn’t or wouldn’t share with the world. But now I know: Social media is a sometimes kind of thing. Whenever I go back online, I think twice about what I want to say—and what I want the world to know. Because you never know who’ll trip over your secret posts or messages online. Be in control of yourself in social media. Don’t post inappropriate photographs. Don’t say negative things. And definitely don’t ever think that social media is a real social life.
