At least it did for a week.
I never had time for Facebook or Twitter. I was busy from morning ‘til night, and although I did my fair share of surfing and reading random things online, to actually devote time to something that might require minute by minute attention was too much for me.
Then I became an author. The general consensus for marketing your book online is social media. I set up a Twitter account and started searching hashtags for like-minded people who might be interested in reading something considered a beach read – a book you take to the beach for an easy, breezy, read.
I was quickly overwhelmed. I saw authors who seemed to tweet for hours at a time, readers who couldn’t possibly have time to read because they were tweeting all day, and massive amounts of people creating a cacophony of words across the tweetscape. It was like going down the rabbit hole.
I still haven’t made a single tweet. I did learn something new while I was hanging around there. I ran into an editor who tweeted about words that drive editors batty. “That” being one of them. It made me laugh – really laugh. When I thought I needed extra word count, “that” was one of the words I thought would work well for filler. We use it so often in our own speech, so I thought it would sound natural. Now that I know, I’ve tried to use it more judiciously.
Some of the other words she shared were: just, really, very, so, immediately, suddenly, oh, anyway, little, bit, then, only, and look. This may be writing 101 to many people, but since I’ve never taken that course, it was good to know.
Facebook was next on the list. I set up my page, but really didn’t know what to do with it. I made a few likes here and there, added information about my books, and tried to think of something to say. This was going nowhere fast. I realized I’m a dolt when it comes to social media.
So many of my writing ideas pop into my head at the most absurd times of day, and that’s how my blog came to be. I didn’t want to blog. I’m actually a private person, and I don’t want people to know about my personal life, but the idea showed up one day, and it was kind of a loud thought. I searched for reviews on blog sites, and WordPress came up often. I put it off for a couple of days, but the noise was still in my head. Being an author is new to me, and I really did want to chronicle the adventure, so I gave in and joined the WordPress community.
I told my family I was blogging because it was all the social media I could manage at this time. It brought laughter and more head shaking. Will I be embarrassing them? You bet I will.
Breezy Books 
Facebook is a major time sucker. I should know. I was on facebook full time for 3 years! Then I decided I had to do something besides read people’s made up status updates. So I closed down my facebook account and looked into blogging. Like you my research brought me here to WordPress. Lucky us! I have set up facebook again, but only as another outlet for plugging my food blog and my writing. I check on it about once a week if that. I also have a twitter account but darn if I know what to do with it. tweet tweet. 😉
I have a twitter account, too, but don’ t have a clue yet how to use it to my advantage without being obnoxious. It’s a goal for later this year. I barely have a Facebook presence, but at least I have one. … Social media; I’m a dolt. But I love the entire blogging experience.
I much prefer the blogging experience myself. Facebook gets irritating. Well I think anyway, so I’m not there much. Twitter? I have no idea what to do with that!