My adventures with social media

It is official now, though it has been obvious for many years — I am now a social outcast, having lost or closed my last social media account. For many a decade, I was behind in the fast-moving world of technology-enabled interactions between people. Starting from the days of rotary phones (now found only in museums), I was barely able to manage to dial the correct number and have a telephonic conversation. When the world exploded with cellular phones, I was smug enough to believe that ‘it wont happen to me’ and refused to become wire-less. The clunky flip phones quickly gave way to smart-phones and voice was replaced by text, and then text by hieroglyphics. I was busy trying to learn to send messages via email and missed the whole gamut of