The internet is a brilliant thing and if it wasn't for it we wouldn't be where we are today with our business but it can cause a lot of problems.
Especially social media. Someone can write something not meaning it in an offensive way but another person can read it and completely take it all out of context.
I have first hand experience of this in a few situations. It caused me and my dad to fall out for a week or so a couple of years ago over something I had written on Facebook. Someone had told him what I had written, as he isn't on Facebook, and taken it completely the wrong way. I wasn't even saying about my Dad in the first place and it wasn't written in a horrible manner either.
As I write this I can feel a sick feeling in my stomach as again this may be taken the wrong way, I am a wuss and don't like to offend anyone so I very often find myself not saying anything to people who offend me. So to be able to write a truthful and honest blog about my life and my family is really difficult.
You have just got to read the posts that people write on Spotted on Facebook. People can get so nasty about each other and comment about people's situations that they have nothing to do with. The comment I see over and over again is "what is this world coming too!". I don't think things have got any worse, you just hear about every little bad thing that happens now via social media and the constant stream of news.
Maybe social media was a very bad idea as it brings out the worst in people and makes people see the worst in you.
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