fff55. Social not-working III

Keely was flattered when Mike asked to be her friend online. He’d seen her photo and thought she was pretty. Yeah, yeah, she could hear teachers and her mum warning about stranger danger, but he wasn’t a stranger was he? She’d seen his photo. But she wondered why his dad had come to meet her.

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I used to work for a company that supplied software to schools. Children can be very tech savvy but they are not so smart when it comes to protecting themselves.

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Social not-working II

friend [fRend] n person for whom one feels affection and whom one knows intimately.

FB friend [faisbuk fRend] n person who has met somebody one walked past three years ago; person wishing to boast about their achievements.

Social Not-working

The carefully crafted message was designed not to exceed the maximum 140 characters. She planned to post it simultaneously to all of her social networking sites so she would know exactly what time everyone could see it. That way she would know how long it took them to respond. She opened the dashboard on her computer, copied the text and pasted it into the window. One last check:

Life is just too much for me so I have decided to take an overdose of pills and white wine and watch the sunset for the last time. Goodbye

Then she hit send.

And the words went unread by all the 263 people who called themselves her friends.