Check Your Sources People
Yesterday I shared a memory on facebook. The photo was dated 2003 and therefore my memory was seventeen years old. My first thought was: Holy Cow! I didn ’ t believe I had been on facebook that long. I hadn ’ t. Six hours after I shared the post I went back to it. Nevermind that facebook hadn ’ t existed yet (or at least to the public) but the baby in the photo wasn ’ t even born until the following year that the post was dated. I had not joined facebook until a few years before we moved to West Valley. I had joined just before Jenna turned five. The dates were wrong. This morning I shared the picture of the fish wearing a mask (from this post) with a reminder that in addition to checking spelling and grammar it is also important that we check references. I had obviously not che...