Social Class

We, the contributors to and consumers of social media, show different sides of ourselves on the various platforms. Let’s take, for example, my reporting of tonight’s parent-teacher conference with Olivia’s second-grade teacher.

If I were on Facebook, I’d go the proud/brag-gy/self-deprecating route, offering something like, “Just got back from our parent-teacher conference with Olivia’s teacher. Glad to learn she’s as wonderful, kind, and intellectually curious at school as she is at home. Don’t know from where she got those traits! :)”

Twitter, given its character limitations, requires an economy of thought, and is ripe for sarcastic expression. On it, I might write something along the lines of, “Olivia’s teacher reports our boisterous child is quiet in class. Need to run this claim by PolitiFact. #pantsonfire #mistakenidentity”

On this blog, I’d go where the whims of inspiration take me, but I’d most definitely incorporate some wordplay and puns along the way. Unless, of course, I’m suffering from writer’s block, at which point I’d just throw up some photos of Olivia’s contributions—flora and fauna—to her classroom. (Pictures that should have been edited in Instagram, and then shared in Facebook and Twitter, of course.)