Replying to: Just Put It On Your Blog
I’ve never been really active on any social media platform. Sometimes I feel like I ought to be. I feel like I want to. That is the goal of most of it, after all, to command as much of your time and attention and social energies as possible.
I don’t “want” to participate on social media more just for the sake of engagement or to sell anything. Just to socialize more, which is something I really do need to do more. And I can’t deny that social media is a major component of socializing in my environment.
I consume plenty of social media; I certainly spend plenty of time scrolling. But I don’t tweet much. I don’t feel the urge, as I see and hear and feel and think things, to tweet about them. I rarely think to tweet in response to other people’s tweets. It feels to me like my brain just doesn’t quite work the way these sites want it to.
And this past year it has only gotten worse. When I have a thought that I would like to express, these days I think about putting it here first. I think in blog posts much more easily than I think in tweets. And now when you do see me tweet, it’s usually to share a link to one of my blog posts.
I do post and write more than I ever have. but it’s all for here. The social media sites still don’t get anything. So much the worse for them I suppose.
This arrangement isn’t a failure by any means. But it is a little frustrating in the sense that it wasn’t the original goal. But when does anything go just according to plan?