{"id":13470,"date":"2016-03-15T03:37:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13470"},"modified":"2016-03-15T03:37:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T03:37:52","slug":"social-media-curse-and-a-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13470","title":{"rendered":"Social media: curse and a blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Social media drive me nuts.<\/p>\n

I’m having fun with some of it. Other media sometimes confuse me. I use several media platforms to promote this blog. I am not entirely sure how well they’re serving my self-interest.<\/p>\n

I have used one of my favorite social media outlets — Facebook — perhaps more than any other. I use it for a couple of purposes: to keep up with friends, family members and acquaintances and to distribute musings from this blog.<\/p>\n

There’s a third purpose, too, I suppose: to offer some goofy musings on occasions.<\/p>\n

It’s the\u00a0third purpose that makes me wonder whether Facebook somehow is addictive. I’m thinking it is.<\/p>\n

One of those musings was to declare my consideration of creating a Last Word Contest.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it might go … if I were to proceed with launching it.<\/p>\n

I would post a blog item that generates comments from my social media network. Do I then intend to answer every one of them? Do I seek to wear those blog readers down? Do I have the patience, the intestinal fortitude to stay the course?<\/p>\n

Most importantly: Do I have the time?<\/p>\n

I guess I would have to say I have none of the above.<\/p>\n

It’s the time that breaks the deal for me.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a large number of social media contacts along the networks to which I belong. I’m guessing it’s something north of 1,000 folks. A lot of them love to spend large amounts of time responding to this or that comment.<\/p>\n

I’d spend that kind of time, too, I suppose if something really hit my hot button. The older I get the more it takes to fire me up. I mean really<\/em> get me riled up.<\/p>\n

I’m likely to decide ultimately against entering a rhetorical shooting match with anyone out there in social media land. Don’t take it to the bank just yet.<\/p>\n

I might change my mind, which everyone is able to do.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’m going to keep firing blog entries out there via social media: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr. I might look for some others.<\/p>\n

I encourage everyone to comment on the entries. I don’t mind criticism as long as it deals with the substance<\/em> of whatever I say; the personal stuff is another matter. I’ve even owned up to an error in judgment on occasion and stated my error publicly, on this blog!<\/em><\/p>\n

Back in the day when I worked for daily newspapers I’d get into arguments with individuals who would question my love of country or even my faith when they took me to task for something I wrote.<\/p>\n

Don’t go there, OK?<\/p>\n

Indeed, that might be another reason to forgo the Last Word Contest. Some folks just can’t help themselves.<\/p>\n

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Social media drive me nuts. I’m having fun with some of it. Other media sometimes confuse me. I use several media platforms to promote this blog. I am not entirely sure how well they’re serving my self-interest. I have used one of my favorite social media outlets — Facebook — perhaps more than any other. … Continue reading Social media: curse and a blessing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1676,4300,4932],"class_list":["post-13470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-facebook","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13473,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13470\/revisions\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}