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I was thinking about writing this post and so I decided to have a look at the social media profiles of a few people that I was or wasn’t impressed with to see the differences in the characters and what they present.

Barack Obama has 103.4milion followers on Twitter (at the time of writing)

He posts about once a day and when I wrote this his previous posts included a tribute to George Bush Snr (which was very beautiful) and the day before pictures of Barack working at a soup kitchen in Chicago and links to that charity in case anyone wanted to donate.

I couldn’t find anything about his holidays or a weekend away with his wife, what watch he was wearing or tickets he had to a special show because he was so important. I didn’t see a #lovemylife anywhere.

Contrast with what you see from other people in their roles as key influencers and leaders and you start to figure out a formula to assess who people are and what they’re actually like.

I can try to give people the benefit of the doubt (my daughter for example) and think that she’s just caught up in a maelstrom – sucked in to a world of social media where she feels it’s essential she achieves her status by posting how happy she is or how brilliant things are.

We’ve been talking about this for years but it’s getting so much worse by the day.

If I seek out the people I admire, those I think have changed things for the better, they don’t post their holidays on Facebook (or other equivalent social media platforms)

Why might this be?

I think these people are paying attention to their business and the business of changing things and making things better and not the business of promoting themselves for their own benefit through whatever means they can.

It’s running out, this effect, because the noise is staggering and you just can’t keep up in any way at all.

You can’t remember who the last group of people were on Love Island because it’s time for the next ones and I’m really not sure that they qualify as leaders.

Keeping up with the Jones’ next door got put on speed when social media arrived. The difficulty with that is that your 5,000 friends on social media are all having the #bestdayever in the midst of you trying to survive.

I’m not sure what the solution is but it’s a solution that we need.

As I was writing this there was a robin perched outside the window at the back of my house.

Apparently, every garden has a robin and we definitely have one and there he was again.

I should have taken a photograph and posted it on social media to say how wonderful my life was but instead I thought I’d just have a look at the robin and appreciate it (maybe I’ve sold my soul because I told you about that in a blog)

Blog Post Number: 1855