Knee-Deep in the Hoopla

I keep thinking it would be nice if I got off social media altogether and got back to blogging.

It’s all narcissism; blogging was a different, more early-20th century flavor of it.

Facebook and Twitter you know (used to know?) that there were eyeballs on it; the question was – could you get a few shallow likes, comments, follows, etc. It’s like going to Wal-Mart and running into your friends from high school – not really all that satisfying but reminds you you’re alive.

Blogging is more WORK, for one thing, and even pretty good ones don’t get a lot of engagement relative to even an average Facebook/twitter poster. People have to go out of their way to look for you.

We shall see. I’ll try to check in here.

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