{"id":7297,"date":"2022-02-02T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2022-02-02T11:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:29:45","slug":"gone-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/gone-and-back-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone and Back Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, you probably didn’t notice, but I took the month of January off from all social media. Yeah, I’d found myself checking my feeds every few minutes and didn’t like to think that I couldn’t get along without social media to distract me, so I put my Facebook account on hold and must ignored my other feeds.<\/p>\n

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For the most part, it wasn’t a big deal, though I did spend more time checking new sites when the urge to see what the world was doing hit me. A close friend wound up being hospitalized for Covid, and another friend’s mother passed away, which I found out from mutual friends, but there’s something to be said for direct one on one communication anyway.<\/p>\n

Although I use social media to keep in touch with family and friends, I also use it to promote my writing, including my Science Fiction to Look For column<\/strong><\/a> for Amazing Stories magazine, which I’ve been writing for the last two and a half years. Besides that, there are occasional entries to this blog, and some full-length reviews that appear on Amazing Stories, SFRevu, and Gumshoe Review. Over the last month, I’ve written a few reviews for those publications and a few that just stayed here on the blog. There was a time when I was an actual working tech journalist, but while I like the writing and research, pitching stories to editors took the fun out of it, so now I just write for my amusement.<\/p>\n

Part of going off social media was to reinforce that to me, that writing was something I was doing because I enjoyed it, not just to attract eyeballs. I found that liberating. So, now I’ll go log into Facebook and see if I’ve got a shadow…<\/p>\n

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So, you probably didn’t notice, but I took the month of January off from all social media. Yeah, I’d found myself checking my feeds every few minutes and didn’t like to think that I couldn’t get along without social media to distract me, so I put my Facebook account on hold and must ignored my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7300,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}