Bob Geldof's 1999 predictions about social media

Must try to take a look and see if Sir Bob has said anything about the possible pitfalls associated with the growth of social media since 1999, because if he has I'm guessing it would be worth reading! :)
 
This looks a genuine article concerning Sir Bob's views concerning social media etc., but before I post some of it I wanted to give a quick anecdote about an old friend of mine called Jimmy Deuchars, who set up a grandparents self help groups called "GrandparentsAPART", for those unable to see their grandchildren, and Jimmy being an enterprising guy wrote to Bob at the following address, "Bob Geldof, LONDON", (and wrote nothing more on the envelope, as he didn't have a better address to use). Jimmy was then on holiday abroad and could hardly believe it himself when Sir Bob rang him, and had to check it wasn't a wind up, and then Bob Geldof became a patron of Jimmy and his wife Margaret's organisation!

Here is the website article on Bob's outspoken views on social media etc.:

https://wiselivingmagazine.co.uk/health/wellbeing/sir-bob-geldof-talks-grief-life-and-social-media/

I’ve hardly started questioning Sir Bob Geldof before he is off on a long, sweary rant about everything he thinks is wrong with the world – from the internet and the perils of social media, to the actions of ****** and ******.

“It’s a chilling world that I look out at and I pray that my children can make a better go of it than my generation did,” Geldof declares sombrely.

Far from mellowing, he’s as ‘rackety’ as ever – the word he uses as frontman of The Boomtown Rats to describe the band’s style of music; raw, opinionated, musical activism oozing from every line.

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",......, how does he deal with the grief then?

“I don’t want to dwell on that any longer,” he says. “I’ve dealt with that. It’s not as if I go moping around the whole b****y time. I don’t! You get on with your life, that’s it.

“There’s a song I’ve written which I haven’t recorded, called ‘Get On With It’. Life is the hardest thing, but if you do it, you get through it. That’s called being human.”

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Blessed said:
Thats interesting!
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Maybe but dont forget Bob has been a risk taker in his life, and according to Paula Yates herself, (an equally great risk taker probably), she moved in with him after knowing him for only two weeks.

You and I wouldn't do that would we, even if we had the nerve to try it, we'd quite rightly say "You cant possibly know someone in that time frame".

Its true too isn't it, even good and happy people, (or potential partners), only show you the side they wish you to see when you've first met, and are only beginning to get to know them, (and if you had a secret camera placed somewhere and heard them describe you and what they really thought of you to their mothers, or whoever they wish to confide in, you'd perhaps be shocked).

Still, Sir Bob has had a great deal of grief to cope with in his life, and yes he must be very strong to have coped so well, whether or not the way he says he compartmentalises the grief is a totally adequate method, (or convincing argument), I'm not entirely sure.

However, over-riding all that is another of my father's sayings, (possibly my paternal grandmother's saying too), "It wouldn't do for everyone to be the same", (hence the solution for one wont be the same for another, no matter how much anyone might wish to think it is the way they feel we should all be!). :)
 

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