I’m on social media vacation
It’s time for year four of my annual social media vacation. I won’t be around this blog/Tumblr, won’t be posting or reading on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, might accidentally post to Instagram and won’t be responding to anything sent to me that’s not on email or text. Oh, and for those who know me well, I take the last two weeks of August away from electronics entirely, so no phone or email either.
Why am I telling you this at all? Well, as I’ve said in the past when i’ve done this, I don’t want anyone to be offended if I don’t respond to them while I am away. I’m not important enough to just leave social media altogether, and some friends, clients and people I’ve never met but who contact me online, might not know I’ll be gone unless I tell them.
Why do I do this? I’m not anti- social media in general, but I think that as much as it is changing the world for the better, it tends to stifle my personal creativity – instead of writing that novel, or that essay, or just enjoying life, I turn to social media as a giant procrastination tool, and I like to spend August being more creative. It’s helped every year, and I increasingly find it hard to come back to the social media world. So I encourage you to take your own little vacation and spend some time with your thoughts and see if it helps your creativity too.
So, until the day after Labor Day…
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