On-Line Streamlining
On Friday of this week I will shut down both my Facebook and Twitter accounts. In place of communicating via those outlets I intend to be a more consistent and diligent blogger. There are several reasons for this move which I will explain just briefly.
- I usually check all these accounts after dinner. That process entails checking Nelson email, personal email, Twitter updates (both reading and writing), looking at who added or dropped me on Twitter, checking Facebook updates from my "friends", and leaving comments. I could set up a link that combines Facebook and Twitter updates into one process, but that only saves a few moments of what takes about 45 - 60 minutes.
- My other personal interests, be they gardening or guitar or a few home improvement projects slated for the spring, suffer from the time taken up with living in the on-line world. Every so often my wife would like for me to just sit down and watch TV with her and I rarely ever do.
- After slacking off for the winter, I am back walking 4 miles every night (yes, every night) in what may be my last opportunity to stay off insulin.
- 99.9% of the people on Facebook are good people that I haven't seen since high school. I share with them mostly the accident of geography (i.e. from 1966 to 1978 our parents lived in the same school district).
- 90% of what happens on FB are games that are time sucks.
- Those who follow me on Twitter can also follow this blog.
- Most days, my life's just not that interesting to me much less to other people :-)
Comments
I hear you. I don't go to my FB or Twitter everyday, but I can see how it can eat into your time. Way to go with resetting you schedule to allow more of what's most important to you!
Carole B
I like the new widget for blogger which you can add and people can follow you that way also.
Cheers!
And good luck!
Indeed, what happened to real interaction, instead of just the virtual one?
Becky
Twitter: kbeck1
I'm glad to hear that there will be more blog posts. After working in HR at a secular company for close to 10 years, I enjoy reading your thoughts on HR from inside a Christian business. What happened with the insurance?
Insurance renewal was the worst of my career. We had the perfect storm of increased claims activity, an ineffective broker (mandated by our ownership), leading to sharply higher costs and lower benefits for the workforce. We're almost finished with Open Enrollment, and after that I've got a few tricks up my sleeve yet. We believe the claims were a fluke, and we are re-marketing the plan with our old broker after a quarter of what we believe will be sharply lower claims. Its taken a couple of years off my life at this point and I still don't accept the outcome.
I do still enjoy connecting with old friends who are parents now and post photos of children, dogs, etc. I love reading about their families. I also enjoy connecting with relatives I rarely see except on holidays and funerals!
FB may be a fad with me, and I'll continue until the medium becomes too commercial and tedious (which seems to be rapidly happening with all of the changes they are presently making.)
Twitter has been more valuable to me in the long run. The people on Twitter I follow link to other information and articles they like. This variety of information is part of the attraction for me. When I see an link I like I can favorite to read later or click the link and explore. Many of the blogs I follow and include in my google reader were found from tweets. I found your interesting post through a tweet by Michael Hyatt.
I will be reading your blog to see how it feels to let FB and Twitter go!
Enjoy your spring!
I recently made a similar move. I closed my Twitter account and my blog, but kept my facebook account open. I didn't have enough to say on my blog that wasn't personal and more easily shared on Facebook, and Twitter...? That just seemed like too much noise.
Blessings!
Andrew