Maybe we should take that as a sign that announcing every trip to visit grandma to the world just isn't a thing we need to be doing.

You should have seen what long distance phone calls cost before the 90's (i.e. cellphones).

I made a $100 phone call to a girl I met on vacation in 1990.

Then maybe we ought to charge $0.05 per post instead of a flat monthly fee :)

Is that a bad thing?