I’m not sure what to do with myself online, dudes and dolls.*
I took a social media sabbatical of about four days, and made an easy call yesterday—I’m greatly ramping down my Facebook activity, to perhaps an hour a week. It’s just not good for me. I think it saps my creative energy, and worse, I think it makes me noticeably moody from time to time. I can’t get off altogether this time. (I have responsibilities to the Task Force, most notably.) Moreover, I’m not sure I want to. Facebook remains effective at some positive things, and I’d like to continue enjoying those.
But I can definitely shrink the bad and grow the good.
Twitter and Instagram, the other two social media platforms on which I participate significantly, do not similarly poison me. However, I’m actively guarding against excessive time spent.
As for here on BoWilliams.com, well…things just haven’t gone like I thought they would. I had some great ideas for a site overhaul that I was going to implement over the Christmas break. But, the more I considered it, the more I suspected it would be more ongoing work than I wanted to do.
So there are no significant changes yet. Changes feel closer now, though they will be gradual. Post content going forward is clearer to me now. I’ll be going with half review and half (non-review) editorial, with an occasional outlier. Expect 2-3 posts per week.
Thanks for hanging with me. It’s been a wild two years.
*Yeah, I have to do something about “dudes and dolls.” It has been BoWilliams.com schtick for as long as there has been a BoWilliams.com, but if I care about being inclusive—and I do—then I need to retire it. I’d like to think of something that is just a little irreverent but still respectful. Stay tuned.
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