Will Newman had lots of
friends on Facebook, 679 of them to be more precise. Scrolling down his friends
list on his laptop screen, the names resembled an endless array of strange
looking thumbnail photos, all individually labelled with jumbled up symbols and
characters. Who on earth were all these people, he wondered to himself,
embarrassed there were so many he didn’t recognise. It was almost as if he had
spent the last year accumulating fake postage stamps for his precious stamp
collection! But how the list had been collected wasn't important - what
mattered most was that he was now in possession of a long list of “friends” to
hold up high and wave about as if he were competing in a school popularity
contest.
His thoughts were
interrupted by a high pitched shrill coming from downstairs that caused him to
panic. Before he had the chance to log out of Facebook, his mum had rushed up
the stairs and entered his bedroom. She stood there, shaking her head pitifully
as she began the monotonous delivery of her morning sermon on how he was
wasting his life on stupid internet “stuff” like Facebook. Will sighed,
suddenly depressed.
Copyright Roger Gerald Scott
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