I have written about this before but yesterday, I met another girl who just refuses to sign up to Facebook or any other social media tool. Some of her friends are even on it and she does know what its about from a third-hand perspective.
Perhaps more intriguing is what she does use to keep in touch with friends as she is quite inseparable from her laptop back home – MSN Messenger. Yep that’s right that old early noughties tool. The closest I come to MSN Messenger these days is when I log into my old Hotmail account every now and then and automatically get signed in to the web-version!
The title of this post is “a surprising social media recluse” – the keyword in bold there.
It is surprising because this person is my 16-year old cousin. She is the youngest person I have met who doesn’t either get it or purposely refuses to sign up. I tried my best to convince her but to no avail. My reasons are somewhat selfish because as a family they emigrated to New Zealand about six years ago and it would be far easier to stay in touch with tools like Facebook.
But alas, what will be will be.
