Periodically I go up against my biggest enemy – Time. Or rather, lack of time. It’s fine when I’m just coasting along living in my own delirious illusion, but if I happen to open my eyes and see how much time has flowed past, and how little I’ve accomplished with it, I become slightly panicked. In addition, I’m suffering from some increased demands in my day job, and in other areas of my life, that have served to squeeze my available time even more.
After some internal debate, I’ve decided to make a few changes to my social media commitments. Social media, as you probably know, is a wonderful thing. It’s also the perfect time waster – you can tell yourself that you’re working, when all you’re really doing is surfing the Internet.
First, I deleted my Google Plus profile. I haven’t been using it, and frankly I don’t have the time to develop my presence there. Besides, although I had about 200 people in my circles, my stream tended to be filled with posts from about 5 very active users. I just didn’t have the feeling of community and conversation there that I have in Twitter and Facebook.
So, if you were following me on Google Plus, please come follow me on Twitter or Facebook. If you don’t already. Which you probably do.
Deleting that Google Plus profile felt kind of empowering, if you want to know the truth. Social Media will NOT RULE ME! MWHAHAHA! But I’ll always be grateful to Google Plus for putting me in contact with Doris – the lovely person who extended me the original invitation to join. Thanks, Doris!
Next, regarding this blog. Since I started in April, I’ve been posting three times a week – Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday – with only the occasional break. I feel that I just can’t keep up that pace anymore. I’ve decided to go to twice weekly – Wednesday and Sunday – in the hopes that bi-weekly will fit in better with my schedule. Right now I don’t have much creative time, so I don’t want the creative time I DO have spent trying to write a blog post. If twice a week doesn’t work, I might have to drop to once a week for a while, but I’m going to try to avoid that.
So, this post is really just an FYI for those of you who would actually have noticed that things had changed. I now return you to your regularly scheduled program already in progress.
And let us all use our time wisely. 😀
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