Social media, it's a funny old world isn't it" It's hard to believe that we used to live without it, I can't believe that I grew up without the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. How did I cope" Being a full time blogger, I feel I am wrapped up in social media than perhaps most people. I probably spend about 90% of my day/evenings online, my phone is rarely away from my side and to me things like Instagram themes, Twitter meme's, are all normal and part of my everyday life.

But after the whole Brexit situation, I got thinking about social media. I realised that it was encasing me in a bubble. A bubble which I had created. But I'd been in this bubble for so long that I'd forgotten it wasn't real life, I wasn't surrounded by a realistic proportion of people and after we've just seen Trump being elected President, I realised it again. In the few days before the EU Vote and the American Election, I'd had conversations with people, 'I just can't see us leaving the EU/Trump winning as no one wants it to happen/him to win.' Then both mornings, I've woken up shocked that they did happen, and I couldn't understand why, when my Twitter time line was full of outrage.
It then dawned on me, that on social media, we surround ourselves with like minded people. Why would we follow people we don't like, or who don't share the same views as us" Heck, I'm honest enough to admit that over the years, I've blocked, unfollowed or muted people because I : A:...