Today I just have a bit of a strange confession. I like to think of myself as quite a technologically-aware, up-to-date kind of guy. I’ve always used computers, and like to keep in touch with the current trends. However I just realised something which struck me as very weird: watching breakfast TV just now, the presenters said that viewers could get in touch with Whatsapp, and it struck me that I don’t have a clue what Whatsapp is. Of course, I have heard it referred to quite a bit, and I think my brother mentioned using it, but I’ve never been anywhere near it.

I know it’s a way to communicate over the web, but for that I stick to Facebook messenger or good old email. It strikes me as weird that I’ve never used it and don’t know anything about it, but it’s now so popular. Perhaps the fact that you apparently need a mobile phone to use it, which I don’t own, means that this trend has left me behind. There also seems to be a lot of QR code scanning involved, which I can’t do. I wouldn’t mind, but given the Beeb are now referring to it as one of the main ways of getting in touch with them suggests this is a huge trend which I have somehow been totally oblivious of.