The other day my old man, Grandpa Richard, summoned me and asked to be briefed on a dim trend he had witnessed while experimenting with social media. “Don’t your comrades have any friends to take photos of them?” He quizzed. “Let me tell you about the selfie- generation Grandpa,” I…
When Grandpa Richard last entertained the thought of joining social media, he was spooked by the use of yellow smileys that are threatening to replace words as the standard means for written communication. It was really unnerving for the old man to have sentences winking and leering at him. His…
Is it really possible to find true love online? I set out looking for an answer to this question and got varied responses. First came the lamentations about online relationships that have gone awry. Sebastian, a 22 year old Kenyatta University student, was utterly against the idea of dating someone…