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Don’t Share Anything With Me – I Don’t Want It!

I’m talking about social media, the most popular one in fact.

Let me say that again: “Don’t Share Anything With Me – I Don’t Want It!”

People Just Don’t Get It!

Well they do, because you sent it!

No, I’m not talking about the article but what happens to the people you send it to.

When you share that item I often hear, “Well it didn’t do anything.. Nothing happens.”

You Don’t See Anything Happen

But it goes to your friends, every one of them, and whether they read it or not,

it goes to their friends, and their friends, and their friends, and on to their friends – get the picture?

During that journey many items are available along the way from all those profiles – email addresses, phone numbers in some cases, where you’ve been, where your going, the kids pictures, – you know, all that stuff you don’t care about.

How Did You Get That Article?

Did it ever occur to you that someone else may have already read it? Probably long before you did.

And likely some friends sent it to them. Things don’t just appear out of nowhere in social media.

The chance of you sending something someone hasn’t already read is about 1%.

By The Way Can You Read?

Do you really think a lost person on the other side of the world lost 5 years ago is going to be found in my neighbourhood – or yours?

Do you really think it is going to help cure that terrible disease if I post something on my wall for an hour?

Do you really think thousands of people are going to receive thousands of dollars because you must share and pass on this stupid picture of phony money?

Do you really think that something bad will happen if everyone doesn’t pass this on without scrolling in one minute?

Do you really think I can’t come up with another hundred examples from stuff people send that I have to pass on?

Click Bait!

Is what it is called. Every day over and over again, Share this, click here, send this, watch this then forward . . .

Friends, friends of friends, friends of their friends, friends of their friends, .   .   .

Click Here!

By the way Click Here!  You won’t get much but its more relaxing than sharing stuff!

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