Since last writing on Boxing Day, I've wound down all my social media activities. I've chopped my networks back in size, ready for the winter of quiet, helping me maintain as little noise attempting to pull me back as possible. I'm toying with the idea of even temporarily closing down my Facebook account on 31st December, just to make sure I'm not going to cheat. That's the biggest pull of all really - just because you don't visit the site anymore, doesn't mean the site forgets about you. Oh no. The Tweets kept coming to my mobile as I'd forgotten to shut off mobile alerts. And Facebook will email me regardless of whether I'm actually looking or interested.
Flickr will be tough too, as it's one of the few social media services that I feel really has enriched my life, but it's only a month for God's sake. I can do it.
The thing I am most interested to find out is what, if any impact this experiment will have on my professional life. I've been frustrated by the intrusion of my working life into my private life for quite some time now; yet I'm the instigator of it. I've been holding the belief that I have to be a big noise, that I have to shout about what I'm doing, with whom, and when. A beacon for my own public relations and selling myself all over the place. Did I make this up, to allow an addiction to come through unchallenged? Or is it acually true, will I find myself with less work and less contact from a month out of the "scene".
I'm not missing any of it yet, if anything the more time I spend away the more I want to delete, cancel, quit and remove. We'll see :)
Flickr will be tough too, as it's one of the few social media services that I feel really has enriched my life, but it's only a month for God's sake. I can do it.
The thing I am most interested to find out is what, if any impact this experiment will have on my professional life. I've been frustrated by the intrusion of my working life into my private life for quite some time now; yet I'm the instigator of it. I've been holding the belief that I have to be a big noise, that I have to shout about what I'm doing, with whom, and when. A beacon for my own public relations and selling myself all over the place. Did I make this up, to allow an addiction to come through unchallenged? Or is it acually true, will I find myself with less work and less contact from a month out of the "scene".
I'm not missing any of it yet, if anything the more time I spend away the more I want to delete, cancel, quit and remove. We'll see :)
Woo first post. Always so much to write and no idea where to start. Well, there will be plenty more to come.
Today's post is just to let you all know I'm starting this blog with the energy of what I would normally spread all over the web in little places, except hopefully hone my personal writing style, find out more about my own train of thought, and stop giving content to third party sites when I could be creating my own.
I'm starting with a month off all my other social media. Most affected will be Twitter and Facebook. Flickr I will still use as a tool, but not the social aspects. I'm allowing myself that one as I have a growing photography habit that I really enjoy.
I'll post more on my thoughts on why I'm doing this, and what it feels like as I break into the New Year in a big bunch of silence. I'm so used to Tweeting, Facebooking, or scouring peoples' photos to comment. Infact, I've been genuinely addicted to it for the last few months in particular. And it's that addiction that has made me want to go cold turkey.
You don't have to be an alcoholic to appreciate the finer points of rum or wine. Also I'm a person, not a Pokemon - I don't wanna collect them all anymore. Holding these two thoughts as my shining light back to not-recording-what-I'm-doing-seeing-bein
Oh, and of course; actually see how many other things I can accomplish from not constantly checking my network out for details that have no bearing on my life. It'll be hard - I'm a natural born nosey arse. But I think it'll be really insightful and useful to objectify my views on social media.
Today's post is just to let you all know I'm starting this blog with the energy of what I would normally spread all over the web in little places, except hopefully hone my personal writing style, find out more about my own train of thought, and stop giving content to third party sites when I could be creating my own.
I'm starting with a month off all my other social media. Most affected will be Twitter and Facebook. Flickr I will still use as a tool, but not the social aspects. I'm allowing myself that one as I have a growing photography habit that I really enjoy.
I'll post more on my thoughts on why I'm doing this, and what it feels like as I break into the New Year in a big bunch of silence. I'm so used to Tweeting, Facebooking, or scouring peoples' photos to comment. Infact, I've been genuinely addicted to it for the last few months in particular. And it's that addiction that has made me want to go cold turkey.
You don't have to be an alcoholic to appreciate the finer points of rum or wine. Also I'm a person, not a Pokemon - I don't wanna collect them all anymore. Holding these two thoughts as my shining light back to not-recording-what-I'm-doing-seeing-bein
Oh, and of course; actually see how many other things I can accomplish from not constantly checking my network out for details that have no bearing on my life. It'll be hard - I'm a natural born nosey arse. But I think it'll be really insightful and useful to objectify my views on social media.
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