Let’s have a little fun, shall we? This post is all about Things I’ve Googled Lately. Seem pointless? Maybe. The idea came to me while trying to reacquaint myself with Instagram. I hadn’t really been active on my social media accounts for several months and was, without much success, attempting an Instagram story. There was a very simple thing that I couldn’t figure out. At that moment, I truly felt my age. In some ways, 40 is the new 20. And while I am few years away from that number, sometimes I feel like being in my 30’s may as well mean I’m 80 to a millennial. Nothing against 80-year-olds. Or millennials. Anyway, point is – even though Instagram is a young person’s game (generally, speaking), if I’m going to do this blogging thing, I need at least know how to post an Instagram story properly. Right? Probably. Debatable.
As I turned to the doubled edged sword that is google, I was confident I’d find the answers I was looking for. Because, let’s be real. I’m not the first person to find themselves in this predicament. Shaking my head, I wonder at our reliance on the “internet” and the wide range of strange, hilarious, embarrassing, scary, profound, stupid, practical and useless things we plug into our search engines. For a moment, I shuddered at the blind trust we imbue it with…as if it is the keeper of all worthy knowledge. Where are we headed as species when we’d rather ask Google, Alexi, Cortana or Siri a question than another human being? On that note…lemme tell you the things I’ve googled lately…
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