The other day I got one of those supremely unhelpful and useless notifications from Facebook indicating that I posted 16% fewer posts over the last week and had 67% less engagement. If I were an LOL guy I’d have LOL’d all over my laptop. Instead, I probably gave the briefest of chuckles, then quickly moved on. The truth is that I simply don’t care about social media, and most of what I do now is just a simple post of the current blog link you see here. A quick hit-and-run, which is why my engagement and posts are fewer and farther between these days.
That’s been the slow trajectory of things over the past few years, and the same holds true for Twitter and Instagram and the latest Threads. I’m just not into them anymore, and it’s not a new thing. This website was around before all of them, and I enjoyed sharing with my friends and family and whatever limited audience was made aware of its existence (some of you may remember the great postcard blitz of 2003…) and it has always existed solely for my creative expression and enjoyment. That’s happening with or without social media, and given the awfulness of those platforms now, I find myself more and more content when I’m not on them.
So, yes, FaceBook – I’m aware that I post less and have little engagement – and I couldn’t be happier about it.
Also, I’m still here, so count ALANILAGAN.com among the ladies who are still lunching, still spilling the tea, still throwing this party…
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