Fellow social media users--Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and the like--please let me take just a brief moment to explain something. My interest in you and your life is twofold. First, as a friend, I enjoy knowing about you and your family and what is happening in your life. Second, as a Christ-follower, I often pray for and encourage whenever possible my Facebook and Twitter friends.
When I see you going through a challenge or receiving a great blessing or having a family moment, I praise God with you, or I join you in prayer during that tough moment. So I truly enjoy social media, because it helps me stay connected to so many people I both know closely, or have met along the way.
I've also met some people through social media that I would not have connected to otherwise. All of these reasons are among those that make social media, for me, a great asset to my life and also give me the ability to share my life, thoughts, and family with others each day.
Which brings me to this: Unless it is the most extraordinary meal ever--and I mean EVER, I just cannot for the life of me figure out why people continue to take pictures of their food and post them online. If I have seen one filet mignon with truffle oil smothered in lobster sauce on a bed of risotto, I have seen them all. Even the pet pictures are at least somewhat interesting--most of them at least get an "awe, how cute" vibe in my mind.
But another plate of food? Seriously!? That is supposed to be interesting in any way, shape or form? If Chef Gordon Ramsey is not holding the plate, balancing on a unicycle with a million dollars in cash in the other hand and you in the background, I just don't see how a picture of your food is of any interest to anybody. It's nice I'm sure, but by the time I saw it, you've eaten it, and it's probably not healthy anyway if it so enamored you that you pulled out a camera to take a picture of it. So it's a glob of proteins being digested in your stomach and squeezing it's way down into your large intestine. Yuck!
I love you all, which is why I make this sincere, earnest and heartfelt plea to cease taking photos of your food and posting them online. It's destroying the internet! Oh, the humanity!
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