Understanding Social Media

When I set up the Instagram account I used a business account and it created a Facebook page for me to manage too. It automatically linked the facebook page to my personal profile which I'm not so happy about. I was trying to keep things a little separate but it appears that it's almost impossible to do that nowadays. I only found out as my cousin started following my Instagram account. I haven't really posted anything there yet but I guess that the cat's out of the bag and that other Facebook friends of mine will either have already seen the link or will figure it out at some stage. I've managed to keep this blog separate for the moment, but I guess as time goes on my wife will probably catch on and want to see what I've been up to when I've been mashing away on the keys each day (Hi Wifey!  for whenever you might end up reading this 😉).
I've realised that I don't really know how all this social media works and I should really find out a little bit more as my kids are going to be all over it before I know it and that scares me.
I grew up with a predominately analogue childhood. Most music was on tapes, although my brother loved buying his on records. CD players were only just coming onto the market when I was in primary school. We didn't get the internet at home until some time in high school and we didn't need to use it for homework, we had encyclopaedias for that, something like 20 big books full of information. 
I had a PC at home that I purchased myself (with a loan from my Dad). I got that when I was in year 11 or 12 I think, it was an IBM Compatible 486DX with a maths co-processor, I didn't really understand what all that meant when I got it and I still don't. It didn't have the internet, it ran a very early version of Windows. The PC started up in MS-DOS and if I remember correctly you actually had to type "Win" in the command line to launch Windows. Or you could just run other programs directly from MS-DOS.
I purchased my first mobile phone when I was nineteen, there wasn't such things as smart phones or even feature phones. It was an ugly Philips Twist and I used it primarily as a

Philips Twist

business phone for the Mobile DJ Business I was running. If I remember correctly, I actually lost it for a few days and it showed up out the front of a girlfriends house where I usually parked my car. It looked like I'd run over it. 
After that I think I had several of the Nokia phones, everyone was in a competition to get make their phones smaller and smaller. Who would have thought that Nokia wouldn't really be around anymore, everyone had one and if you didn't, everyone knew that you had an inferior phone. None of those phones had the internet, it wasn't until I was in my thirties that I got a phone that had any sort of screen capable that was able to do anything on the internet and that was just a feature phone not a smart phone.
I first really started using the internet in my early twenties, that was on computers and now like nearly everyone else I can't live without it. Well, can't is probably too strong of a word, but I do find it very useful and I've embraced a lot of modern technology and want faster internet and faster PCs and more gadgets and dohickies. I'd love to fully automate my home but I don't think the majority of consumers are ready for that yet so everything is still really expensive. 

Bomber
Feeling old.