for me, there's the added bonus that my employer has me locked out of most social media. Unless i can get to it on my phone, which uses data that costs me, I don't get to facebook or the like until I get home.
Emails though, I can get to throughout the work day. alex So much to do and so little attention span to get it done with… On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:17 PM michaela de bruce < [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Re: managing Facebook. I have stopped "following" almost everyone, except > > family and a few group pages. We're still "friends" and I can go to their > > page and see what's up with them if I want to, but I don't get the > constant > > feed of 100s of posts every day. I can now get through FB in about 15 > > minutes, tops. > > > This is really good advice and I've been doing this for years. There are > people I really care about but their feed is mostly reposts so I unollow > and go to their profile regularly. > > I also have joined communities and unfollowed (it can take several steps to > stop getting notifications) so that I can control how often I get posts. > Again a lot of groups don't have rules on keeping on topic and facebook > prefers to share reposts from pages rather than profiles as that's how they > make money. Many of those posts are boosted and/or use a totally different > and trending topic to get people to like their page.) > > But that means I miss out on a lot due to the lack of a good search and > archiving. > > I like forums, and it is now pretty easy to remain logged in to most and > access many via phone. The forums that have survived social media have been > fora that also use social media to share the work of members. And also have > a clean responsive interface and are easy to share images. > > This mailing list is probably one of the best balances between social media > and forums. We may not be able to embed images but as has already been seen > we can use links (no need for tags just copy the url) > > So I think it might just get more popular over time. > > Michaela > > -- > http://www.arrayedindreams.com > https://instagram.com/thefrockchick > https://www.facebook.com/thefrockchick/ > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
