Social Media Shifting Sand

It’s anonymous media actually, because we don’t know the identity of all these people who are judges of our lives.

Priorities shift, love wanes, content becomes stagnant or people fall on hard times and cannot afford being hooked up to the internet.  Fortunately, there are no cameras in your face when the bank repossesses your house or the landlord kicks you to the curb, a familiar sight in Hillbrow, Johannesburg with people sitting on their beds outside buildings.  It is the only advantage of being a non-celebrity. 

Whatever the reason, we forget to say goodbye to followers, de-followers and ‘might be’ followers when we close online accounts.  The only people who seem to have manners are celebrities who used to share their perfect ten marriages on Instagram and Face.

“We have decided to go our separate ways, but we will always love each other.  We request some privacy during this difficult period.”

Fine, but you must give it to them.  They have class, instead of disappearing into thin air like me. But I did explain my withdrawal from one photography site.  I just didn’t have any original photos to share anymore because I don’t live in picturesque places like British Columbia, Canada, KZN Province in South Africa or Brazil in its entirety.
  
I’m back to that site with some fresh content.  Some folks are still there.  Others aren’t, because of temporary insanity (content drought) but they’ll be back.  Now I know why folks don’t say adios, pardon my Spanish.  They are keeping their options open in case they want to come back.

By:  Nonqaba waka Msimang.