No Instagram, no privacy

I somehow escaped having an Instagram account. This means that I am oblivious to all of my friends’ fun broadcasted on Instagram. I don’t feel pressured either to update the abstract audience of everyone I ever connected with online, on where I am, what I am doing or who I am hanging out with. I feel very blessed. Still, Instagram hasn’t completely escaped me. And it bugs me. My wife and I live a pretty social life. My wife’s job required us to temporarily move to a place far away from home. Luckily the culture of the place we moved to is very friendly to foreigners and there is a big bunch of people like us who are also new to this place and eager to make new friends for the time that they are there. This makes the lines of our friend circles blurred and our social life very dynamic. To illustrate: old friends leave and new friends arrive with such regularity, that the guest list of a birthday party this year will look vastly different from the one we threw last year. Over the p ... Read full article.