To Delete or not to Delete...

The delete key is perhaps the most powerful tool we have at our disposal today. We use it everyday in a variety of ways to manage a variety of situations. When sending an email, writing a document, replying to a text, or programming our favorite TV shows to record, we can hit the delete key and remove or rethink the action.

And now, social media has added a whole new dimension to the power of the delete key. Our connections or public relationships open up the ability to edit our personal lives with just the click of a button. That's right folks you read it here in black and white.
With the introduction of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter we can simply hit a key and delete people from our lives. Click and poof away goes the friend who disagreed with your opinion. Click there goes your connection to a work colleague. How dare they tease you publicly about the quality of your potluck offering after all. Click there goes your latest love interest. You get the picture. Click, click, click.

And that my friends brings us full circle, the question is to delete or not to delete? Once you use the delete key to vanquish a person you may not get a do over to restore the relationship. With great power comes great responsibility or some such philosophical pondering. My humble and unsolicited opinion is to think carefully before you use your all powerful delete key.

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