In the three months or so that I did not have my blog outlet I was just using Facebook and, mostly, Instagram to share what’s been going on in my life when my mood suited.
At the same time, I gradually broke my habit/semi-addiction to social media, which has resulted in a decrease in how much I have been posting, in general. As I re-evaluated my purpose with social media while being a bit of a lurker on others’ posts, I found myself wondering what is the purpose of putting pictures and words out there for people – near and far.
The old-skool side of me thinks that if I don’t talk to you regularly, then you don’t need to know what’s going on with me. However, I find that not quite right either as I have full control over what I post and so if I do, then I can’t be concerned about the reaction of those who see it.
The modern side of me feels like it’s just what we do now to keep updated with one another since the art of writing letters and sending postcards while on holidays has gone by the wayside.
Some people keeps blogs with limited access to those who request or know the URL, but then again it’s still on a public forum with a false sense of privacy and security.
Therefore, I have mostly concluded each to her own. Do what you like and makes you most comfortable.
As for me, I have decided that the Internet is an open forum no matter the form I choose to use. Since I enjoy writing and want to recreate my habit of posting here more, I shall attempt to use efficient methods through the features available of automatically posting from here and Instagram to Facebook so that bases are covered, but I will be less likely to overdo the whole social media sharing.
In any case, I will embrace the fact that people I know or have “connected” with can have a way of finding common ground to interact on -whether good or bad – and hope that in some way I am influencing the world in the way I want – through my writing.
Stay tuned for more posts to come!
~T π
