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Social media presence
Sep. 16th, 2020 05:51 pmDreamwidth is about as mainstream as I get in terms of social media. I have never had accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. To some extent, I get away with this because my family here do have such, so they can report to me any particularly notable local news.
In moving back to the US alone next month, to a new place in which I hope to settle, I should consider increasing my engagement with social media. I am sure that I will learn a little through chatting with coworkers but I should probably do more than that.
Many years ago I found Meetup useful for small casual social stuff around the city, e.g., if I wanted to watch some old television show, maybe if I brought some food over then someone else was putting on a small showing in their apartment. I also found craigslist useful, for both finding apartments and disposing of unwanted possessions. Local free news/sales papers, even grocery store bulletin boards, carried useful information about events and suchlike.
I wonder what might now allow me sufficient local awareness while not wasting my time with clutter. Perhaps local papers and bulletin boards remain useful. Online, Meetup and craigslist might remain popular even now; I wonder what else? Local newsgroups, in the NNTP sense, are probably obsolete. Is Facebook still the thing, and actually useful? Maybe there is now some alternative that I might should consider. Organizations announce through Twitter but they also seem to clutter their feeds with varieties of repetition and mutual backscratching.
In moving back to the US alone next month, to a new place in which I hope to settle, I should consider increasing my engagement with social media. I am sure that I will learn a little through chatting with coworkers but I should probably do more than that.
Many years ago I found Meetup useful for small casual social stuff around the city, e.g., if I wanted to watch some old television show, maybe if I brought some food over then someone else was putting on a small showing in their apartment. I also found craigslist useful, for both finding apartments and disposing of unwanted possessions. Local free news/sales papers, even grocery store bulletin boards, carried useful information about events and suchlike.
I wonder what might now allow me sufficient local awareness while not wasting my time with clutter. Perhaps local papers and bulletin boards remain useful. Online, Meetup and craigslist might remain popular even now; I wonder what else? Local newsgroups, in the NNTP sense, are probably obsolete. Is Facebook still the thing, and actually useful? Maybe there is now some alternative that I might should consider. Organizations announce through Twitter but they also seem to clutter their feeds with varieties of repetition and mutual backscratching.
