Facebook “knows” us. I think we can all agree that for better or worse (mostly worse), we are targeted by pages, groups and ads based on what Facebook knows about us. I recently discovered a Facebook page entitled, “Pretend It’s Still the 1970s.” When posting, one of the rules is that all posts must be in the present tense as if you are actually posting from the 70s, whatever age you were then. Fun, right? Some of the posts are, in my opinion, of low quality. By this, I mean that rather than putting effort into actually posting a snippet of your life, a stock image of something will be posted and the poster will say something like, “It’s 1970 and the Beatles just broke up,” with an album cover or a picture of the Beatles. Those don’t interest me as much as the posts with real pictures of the poster and something that was happening in the picture. I decided to post my own memory and here it is.
It’s picture day for my 4th grade class. I’m wearing my best Toughskins; the ones without patches on the knees and I just had my shag haircut trimmed. The best part is that my best friend Andrea is sitting next to me! She’s cool and has mini bikes that we ride around her house. Her mom lets us have chips and Kool Aid. We never have stuff like that at my house!
My teacher Miss Zimmerman is so much fun. During indoor recess, she played Rock the Boat on our class record player and we all did “the Bump!”
After school today I watched Match Game with my brother. Then we went outside to play on our gym set. My favorite thing is to hang upside down on the bars.
Fun fact, I Googled Ms. Zimmerman and found her still in the local area practicing psychology. I recognized her almost immediately from her Psychology Today profile picture!
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