Tag: social media

• The Algorithm

  

  How do you beat the algorithm?How do you fight a reflection that’s been distorted?Pixelated by cyber forces that convince our daughters that they’re not enough?How do you deflect the million voices that affect their choices and drown out us telling them it’s too much?My daughter tells me she’s ugly,Doesn’t hear me when I tell her…

  Serena Malcolm

  4 November, 2025

  Mental Health, Motherhood

  mental health, motherhood, poem, poetry, self image, self-esteem, self-worth, social media, teen girls, teenagers

• #NotYet40

  

  It’s Friday night and we are twirling, The clock’s struck five, it’s time to leave, Bring on the laughing and the slurring, Bring on the sunshine and the breeze. Happy hour’s faintly chirping, “Oh won’t you have a drink or three?” Check in on Facebook with the wording, “Happy Friday, drinks on me!” Three birthday…

  Serena Malcolm

  17 April, 2015

  Fun

  #, alcohol, bar, birthday, celebrations, club, cocktails, dancing, drinking, drunk, Facebook, Friday, Friday feeling, fun, Fun Friday, girls, Happy Friday, happy hour, hashtag, ladies night, NaPoWriMo, party, poetry, pub, social media, status, Tweet, Twitter