No social media for this writer

 I don't have social media and there are some good reasons for it.

It is just too invasive. Addictive. Takes too much time if I'm not careful. 

And for what purpose? Do I really need to know what everyone is doing? To watch the cute gifs of puppies and cats? To find new recipes when I have dozens of cookbooks? 

Namely these are the things that are, dare I say, all about me and my inability to reign in the curiousity. I've had social media in the past and what I loved is the way to keep in touch with family and friends.

But during Covid, some of my family created a WhatsAp group so we message on that and do video calls, and that's a lot of fun. Plus some of my kids still live at home,  and we're not that kind of family that are in each other's pockets all the time, anyway.

I know that as a writer I'm supposed to have social media and I've toyed with it but I also know how stressful it can be as well, and why add stress into life when you don't need to? There's enough of it across the globe at this moment.

So I opted on having a blog. Of course I have a newsletter: there's a link in the sidebar on the right to sign up. But I prefer the blog. I like blogging, writing short updates or long rambles. I actually find it quite fun. You can tell I was the girl who had a diary as a kid! 

So there you have it. No Facebook, no Twitter, no insta. Facebook was fun at the beginning, I loved it, and Twitter was great to keep in touch with my writer friends and follow the writers I liked. But in the end, I wondered whether it was worth it.

This is it for now, and for the moment I'm quite happy with that. Maybe at some time in the future I'll look into social media again, but for the moment, it is the blog and bum on seat, writing the stories.

Plus I also get to post pretty pictures, like the photo of London, where my books are mainly set.

Have a great day, everyone!

~ Maddie.

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