We’re slaves to our social media

Katie Price’s tweet highlights a problem with modern life.

There are many odd things about the ongoing soap opera that is the life of Katie Price, but one of the strangest was the way she chose to announce her marital problems on Twitter.

Before social media people used to try to work through their problems by talking to one another.

Now if there are bumps in the road the instinct seems to be that you need to share it with strangers

by tweeting or posting on Facebook.

If Katie suspected her new husband of having an affair with her best friend then surely it would have been better for all concerned, and not least her children, to confront them both in private.

By her own choice, Katie’s life is an open book, and she has cannily made a fortune from magazine deals and reality shows, but surely there needs to be some sort of line drawn.

I feel I know more about her life than I do about friends I have grown up with and it is just too much information.

It is interesting that a video has been posted (ironically enough) on YouTube recently all about the way social media is stopping us from enjoying the real world.