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
>
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