9What Word in Social Media Don’t You Understand?

Before I started Stage 32, you wouldn’t have caught me dead (or even drunk!) on social media. I just didn’t see the appeal. Friends, family members and business colleagues would spend hours trying to convince me of what I was missing out on. Quick updates, pictures of adorable babies, precious kittens, the best salads on the planet, self-absorbed musings, inspirational quotes, narcissistic behavior, true confessions, selfies, LOLs, LMAOs, LMFAOs and a staggering arsenal of smiley face emoticons. Didn’t I have a desire to be social, to expand my stable of contacts, to be instantly and constantly connected, to be in the know, part of the scene, hardwired to the collective consciousness? I reminded ...

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