Social media is where I spend a lot of my time. I cannot pretend otherwise. Pic for Representation/ Thinkstock

Social media is where I spend a lot of my time. I cannot pretend otherwise. I tried to be one of those people who stuck to the old ways, who sneered at mobile phones, who laughed at people who claimed they wrote their columns on their Blackberries during traffic jams (children, these were ancient devices that were sort of smart phones, but not) and even snidely suggested one could tell by reading them. I curled my lip at people obsessed with online gaming - bar solitaire and free cell, because I managed to crack both of them and that's not really gaming is it? Just old-fashioned cards in a new format. Whatever. I was amazed that people had avatars of themselves on Second Life and that this was even a thing. I don't think it is any more. No one I know talks about it so either I am too old or they have got eaten up by their 'avatars' and now have no first life.