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Social media makes family members less social

By Amy Dickinson, Tribune Content Agency on

Dear Amy: I come from a large family, and we get together often. Lately I've come to dread our interactions.

There are always some individuals who never put down their phones. They take pictures and videos from the minute the interaction starts until it finishes.

I was recently at dinner with family members and my 77-year-old mother-in-law took out her phone the minute we sat down. She started taking pictures and immediately posting them on Facebook -- as we were having dinner!

I politely said, "Can we save the pictures until later?"

She responded by saying, "My life is an open book, and I don't care what others know."

I wanted to say, "Well, my life isn't an open book and I would prefer people not knowing my every move," but I didn't.

 

I feel like it is an invasion of my privacy to have my picture all over FB, Instagram and Snapchat.

I attended a birthday party for an uncle of mine. A week later I ran into an old friend who told me she had seen video of me dancing with my uncle.

I was so taken aback because another friend had videotaped me without my knowledge and sent it to this friend.

If you stand up for yourself and say, "I prefer not to be in the picture/video," they think you are a party pooper.

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