So, I have my reasons I'd love to quit the site: my blood pressure, seeing too much of the idiocy that is found in my country, and he fact that it's often wasted time.
I'm not proud of it, but I am pretty addicted to it. The bad kind of addiction, the one that I wish I could quit but seem to be too roped into to see a way out. The site that I do enjoy is Instagram, where I love seeing other people's amazing photography and the occasional funny post. It feels way more relaxing and enjoyable if I want to scroll through something.
So, I'm curious, what are your thoughts on facebook? Have you quit? What keeps you going back?
LOL! Me too. Totally addicted. Actually, all my writing groups and neighborhood groups are on there, so it's a huge tool. I've established enough patterns of only liking status updates that the algorithm caught on. If I want to see all the snarky, political stuff, I have to log onto my husband's account.
ReplyDeleteSide note: the algorithm only works if they aren't family and you don't like any of their posts. Otherwise...ugh.
DeleteI'm not much of a fb fan either. I rarely post on mine, though it's irritatingly tied to my Goodreads acct, so everything I do on Goodreads is on my home page. I need to fix it, just haven't yet. I'm debating on starting an author page for when I have a book some day, but not sure if it's worth it or not.
ReplyDeleteI post on my author page and some private groups. I don't do much else with FB.
ReplyDeleteI've had a few bad experiences with Facebook, getting suspended over remarks that didn't cross their so called community standards while white supremacists got away with saying things that would have violated any standard, so I'm not terribly impressed with the site.
ReplyDeleteFB can be so frustrating and frankly depressing. On my personal page, I've been really limiting who I friend and what pages I like because I need it to be a safe space, both for my own sanity and because I do like to post pics of the boys for my friends and family who don't get to see them very often. And I've been thinking about limiting (i.e. unfriending) even more people there just to really keep it to a personal space and limit what writing/professional people I have on there. Though I have yet to do a really big purge (it's hard to "unfriend" someone!). I only recently set up an author page, and I work to balance the more marketing type posts with the more conversational ones. It is the single, biggest traffic driver to my blog as far as social media goes, so that is something of value there. But, yeah, it's such a slippery slope. I find that limiting my phone time there (and one Twitter) is really helpful to my peace of mind.
ReplyDeleteI seldom visit FB. I say HI to my friends who write me or send me stuff. I guess PERSON OF INTEREST has warned me about revealing too much where everyone can see it. :-)
ReplyDeleteI have the same mixed feelings about Facebook. I use it to keep up with friends and distant family and I have an author page that I don't do much with. I find it overwhelming and stressful — just too much in my face all at once. Because of that , I only check it two or three times a week. Some people swear by it, though, for book promotion. But then I know others who don't use it at all and do just fine. I'm on the fence about it. I don't like it, but I'm not sure that getting rid of it would be a good idea.
ReplyDeleteI'm no fan of FB either. The only reason I'm there is to share pictures of my kid and cat with family and friends and save me from sending out a ton of emails instead! I get much more interaction on my Twitter account for author stuff than I do on my author page on FB. I try to ignore all the ridiculous stuff on FB, but it's hard. It takes so much time to find the good stuff.
ReplyDeleteWe have our writer's groups on Facebook. So yes, I'm always there!
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh at your post. I hate FB. I schedule my posts through Pagemodo or post via Instagram so I don't have to log on. I've been wondering if I can close my personal account and just keep my author page. The only downside for me is that one of my publishers uses FB for EVERYTHING. If I don't log on (which I haven't in forever) I'm totally out of the loop.
ReplyDeleteI feel you. Gosh the social media is love and hate. :D
ReplyDeleteI find that I still like FB, but I don't post personal things there as much as I used to. I don't read the feeds at all because all I see are ads or items that don't really interest me. I do go to read posts in my various writing groups. I'm fortunate that most of my friends do not post political nonsense these days.
ReplyDeleteI would get a lot more done without Facebook, yet I do enjoy keeping up with friends and family as well as the groups I'm in. But Facebook really is a huge time suck. My productivity usually flatlines as soon as I pop on there. Heh.
ReplyDeleteTotally addicted! But you can streamline it and schedule posts through hootsuite etc so it can keep updating your feed without you actually being there.
ReplyDeleteI get similarly stressed out by Twitter. Am I the only one with that? Just an endless stream of people doing events and school visits and getting tweets from fans...it always makes me feel inadequate! But on Facebook these days, I mostly just go over to the writers' groups I'm part of...I don't pay too much attention to general posts anymore.
ReplyDeleteI quit awhile ago and don't miss it. I prefer Twitter and Instagram. Real life people follow me on Instagram and we text and call.
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