Social Media Redux

Posted this on Google+. Thought I'd post it here, too, since I haven't posted here in a while.

There are people who will keep trying new social sites, like me! And there are people who will start with one and stick with it and not venture elsewhere. And folks who will avoid social media like the plague. And others who fall somewhere in between. Facebook has become the site most people I know use. Some had used something else prior, but most started with FB, some because I talked them into it. Many of those barely use it, except maybe to read what others have to say, or to chat privately because I never see anything posted by them other than their latest friend-adding. I do not expect to see these people join G+. I posted about my G+ invites on FB and those interested have joined. That's where it ends, I think.

So, what do I use this for? To chat with yet more new folks, the way I ended up doing on FB with people I met for game-playing. But my friends and colleagues who do use social media are on FB, not here, so my attention is split, my posting is split. Or duplicated.

LiveJournal was once a big thing. For so many people I know, it remains the only thing. If they have a FB account, they use it for family updating, or photo-sharing, or to promote their writing, art, photography, etc. LiveJournal is where they feel safe to kick back and share thoughts and ideas and experiences via friends-locked posts and the threaded comments. I loved LJ enough to pay for a permanent account, yet I hardly post there, anymore, and barely read my Friends Page, anymore. Not due to boredom or loss of interest, but lack of time. There are folks on LJ I follow who I don't follow elsewhere. But something had to give.

I wonder sometimes if, once I'm retired, I'll be spending all day online, devoting x number of hours daily to each social site I use and blogs I read. Will this be my life, or will I make time for real life activities, too, maybe catch up on my book reading. And now I'm feeling the urge to blog this. Because my blogs reach a whole different audience. And should I put it on my FB page, too?

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