I am sure I have written about (or at least talked about… a lot) about leaving social media! And I gave compelling reasons too, though now I wonder if all of that was not in my mind! Hmm! Anyway, last year I quit social media (some of it, for a while). Then I came back of course. Curiosity got the better of me.
I will be honest, I got tired of posting stuff. Not that I didn’t have stuff, I had tonnes of stuff to post. But I also had an unreasonable number of instagram pages. I know, greedy greedy Karabo! But I thought I would have time to manage them all. I was going to automate the whole thing. I was going to monetise it all as well. But, in the posting, I got lost in the watching and the scrolling and before I know it, 2 hours have past and I have nothing to show for the time except for knowing a lot of things about a lot of people that I didn’t really know! So, I took a break. But social media is addictive. All those pretty polished stories and pictures are just so enticing! I missed it and came back to it. I am not posting as much anymore, but I think I should go back to sharing. Not oversharing. Sharing inspiring stuff that happens in my life. Who knows who may be inspired by it. I had pages I followed religiously, sick children I prayed for after having seen their stories on Instagram. Some of them are still there, but sadly a lot of them didn’t make it. I also need to manage the time I spend on it more.
Does this count as social media? If it does then this is one aspect that I love :-)! The ideas shared are amazing, although a lot of them are questionable. But I used Pinterest as a creativity tool. My kids use it to get inspiration on cakes (Highlight of the year is birthday cake). It doesn’t even have to be their birthday, if there is a birthday coming up you will find them on Pinterest looking at cakes. As soon as the birthday is done they are back looking at cakes… for the next year! That reminds me, I need to start looking at bakers for my son’s birthday at the end of April!
This is where it all started right? From the days of Hi5. Or was Hi5 the WhatsApp equivalent? Don’t remember anymore. Anyway, I was on Facebook to meet new people, make connections. But ever since the days where people would check in and share meals, things have never been the same. I mean, I could have done the same. So could you, you know. Check in everywhere, take pictures of all your meals and share. So why then did I have a problem with my Facebook friends checking in and sharing pictures of their food? Jealousy perhaps? Or maybe I was upset I didn’t do it first? Or maybe I was upset that everyone else seemed to be having more fun than I was? Whatever my reason, I got tired of my Facebook friend’s going to nice places without me and showing me what they ate and did. I also missed the conversations. We eat daily, there is so much ooing and aaing we can do!
Now this one I still have a problem with, I am back on Twitter by the way. New handle and everything. I had deactivated and deleted everything last time I was there. I went to twitter because I thought there would be better conversations than on Facebook… boy was I wrong. Half the stuff that trends has idiotic comments and retweets! There I said it! 馃檪 My Botswana people used to call Facebook the village app… because all things village are backwards. Twitter was their ‘toropo’ or town. But the amount of tweets that are not well thought out there is enough to make your head spin. Seeing I prefer village life to Gaborone life, it is no wonder that I am struggling there. And yes, it takes one person reading my blog to make everyone ‘cancel’ me for daring to have an opinion different from the masses. There is so much bullying online. We used to pride ourselves in having botho, ubuntu. Now I know that botho is a cloak we wear and take off when we go on Twitter.
Like I said, I have a love hate relationship with social media. Something that is used for so much good is also used for so much hate and evil! And something that is can be so helpful and save you time can also be such a time waster. I am back on social media, but this time I am taking it slow! Going in with my eyes wide open, expecting nothing!
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