19Social networking
Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life – we’re striving for this perfection, and it’s so unhealthy because there’s no such thing as perfection.
Emily Atack
Social networking is a way of life. Electronic gossiping and keeping in touch. What could be simpler? It’s become part of our every day.
An email or two, a holiday picture on Facebook, a Tweet (or X as we are supposed to call it) is all a bit of fun. That’s all, just fun.
Well, it can be fun or it can turn into something far more sinister and worrying.
It is important to realize that it is not just your friends who will see what you are up to on Facebook and elsewhere. Increasingly, employers ...
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