Can we talk about how I hate the new Instagram Snapchat thing? We can't talk about it. I full disclosure, I am using it. I know. I've been watching. Did you like them? Yeah. I thought you did them very well for what they are, but I hate them. Look, I don't get them. And I definitely think Instagram ripped off poor Snapchat. Yeah. But Snapchat's also like a $40 billion company and I'm not making that number up. So like I don't care about them. And just as a, I don't know if I'll use them personally on my Instagram yet because I don't, I don't know. But it's a nice behind the scenes look at the business and I personally don't want to start a bookshelf Snapchat yeah no like I can't imagine keeping up with one more thing no like it

makes me want to cry like I was so resistant to it and I hate the idea of it and I'm not

I'm probably not going to change that but then when I saw the bookshelf doing it was like

oh actually for businesses this makes a lot of sense for businesses it, it's cool. For businesses, for bands, for celebrities. Yeah. Like, I get that. But for, like, a regular person, like, I love my cat, but she's not interesting enough to post videos on Instagram about daily. Well, and, I mean, and I think it's probably just, I don't know, I follow personally a lot of people on

Instagram and now all of their stories pop up and I'm like, is there a way to just see like a handful of these?

Like a separate tab. A separate screen. Yeah. And then, but. Which is what Snapchat does. Okay. Because the

nature of my personality is, oh, I must complete everything. So I need to watch all of these stories at the top of my screen. The thing with Snapchat is everybody has friends whose stories they don't watch. Yes. And they make that very easy to do. I don't need to see people in flower crowns and beautiful skin that isn't their own. What about Spock? I don't want to see Spock with bunnies on his face. Well, he doesn't have bunnies on his face. Or puppies. I think it's a puppy face. Oh, puppy face, yeah. I'm tired of puppy face. I think we are not young millennials anymore. No, I sound like a grouchy old lady right now. Yeah. But I have for the better part of my life, so. Oh, wow.

Welcome to episode 81 of From the Front Porch, the collection of conversations on books, small business,

and life in the South.

I'm Chris Jensen, a very inconsistent blogger

and bookseller at the bookshelf.

And I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf,

an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown

Thomasville, Georgia. Today we are going to talk about one of my favorite things in the world,

which is the idea of expectations defining our reality.

Ooh, that sounds so deep. Doesn't it? I got the idea from 500 days of summer.

Oh, a movie movie all about expectations.

Yes, it is.

But it has that kind of, what's the word that I'm looking for?

Immediately recognizable, but that's not what I'm looking for.

What I'm going to go with it.

Really important scene that shows the Joseph Gordon-Levick character, Tom,

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