![]() ![]() It’s how people announce engagements, travel plans, weddings, pregnancies, new jobs, new relationships, new shoes, deaths, divorces, promotions, and even breakups. Either way, social media has made even the most intimate events something you share with not only everyone you’ve ever met, but complete strangers-narcissism at its finest. And instead of your casual one-night Vegas wedding to your former friend’s ex-husband one New Year’s Eve’s remaining between you, him, and the county clerk, it gets blasted to the Twitter-verse and ends up #Trending on every gossip site from here to Timbuktu. Instead of mailing baby announcements when you have a child, you blast it out on Instagram. Instead of calling your best friend for a movie night, now you send him or her a Facebook message. Social media has completely changed the way we interact with one another. Remember the good old days when social media didn’t exist? When the first thing you grabbed in the morning was a cup of coffee and not your iPhone and when personal privacy wasn’t just a setting you have to select? I think of those pretech days as the golden years, when everything you said and did wasn’t an opportunity to alert five hundred of your “closest” friends (and something that could come back and bite you in the ass later). ![]() In her new memoir, “Drinking and Tweeting,” Glanville lays bare her life as a celebrity, a mother and a divorcee. ![]() As one of the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” Brandi Glanville’s life played out on the small screen with tumultuous results. ![]()
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