The Humor of Social Media

A Pin from Pinterest

I was reflecting on my rap on social media yesterday, and the last line I added was on Pinterest. You see I became infatuated with Pinterest recently, with nothing else to do! Right! Plenty of organization and getting rid of stuff around here, books to read for my seminary class, and then Pinterest beckons me. But I was hooked on Pinterest! When . . .

The Internet went down along with the land line. I used my cell phone to call Bright House (Road Runner). Last time something like this happened it was the pump water and the land line. Spiders caused the water problem and maybe the phone problem. This time no Internet and land line for 24 hour until Road Runner could get out here and provide a new modem! No Pinterest! I laughed at myself and got a lot of de-cluttering done. Not finished, but made a huge dent.

In 2009 Getting Off the Niceness Treadmill was published and in the 9th chapter I wrote a poem that has since become a rap, actually my first rap that I do at the end of good classes when I substitute teach in secondary education.  As new media have appeared I have added lines. So here is the current version of "Longing to Chat On the Front Porch With You":



It started with e-mail
The demise of snail mail

Our personal lives are right out there

Anything we’re likely to share

I guess we learned this from reality TV

We rant and rave

And post pictures you can see

On Twitter you can tweet

On Facebook you retreat

On iPod there’s a beat

Real people you don’t meet.

With blogs I can rail

Dialogue will soon fail

Too slow but we can text

What will be the latest next?

Want no face-to-face strife?

Send pictures of your life.

With Skype I can gripe

With Flicker I can snicker.

On Blue Tooth I tell the truth.

On Link-In you can ring in

On Google Plus there’s no fuss

But on Pinterest there’s no rest

The pace we live is sad

No front porch makes me mad.

Pinterest they say is mainly women, but a Manterest and a Gentlemint site have emerged for men along with a lot of other lines I might add to this rap of mine. And, by the way, I am on a huge group board about Alzheimer's on Pinterest.

Thanks to Barb from Cleaning Up the Clutter for getting me into Pinterest! Now I have graphics for blogging! And you all have my third of eight raps on this blog! And me? I need to go de-clutter and stay off of Pinterest for the rest of the day.

Have a good week!