I know I'm only 51 years of age and there are lots of people older than me on Twitter and Facebook, but I can't help but feel like a dinosaur tweeting out there with the rest of humanity. I mean every post takes quite a lot of thought and work to remember how it's done. And I know this stuff is, by its very nature, supposed to be spontaneous. But I am still confused about the difference between my news feed and my Facebook fan page.
Let me explain. I was a television news reporter and anchor in the late 1980's, early 1990's. Sure, I had to keep up with the latest trends, but the internet hadn't even come into being yet. So when I left my career in 1993 to focus on having a family, I was blissfully unaware that there was this world-changing, technological "monster" waiting to come about and start voraciously eating up the time of all its users. That's how I viewed it.
At first, I wasn't the only one who held back, preferring pencil and paper snail mail to email. Eventually, through other jobs I took, I did get the hang of email. I even started paying my bills online. But there was still all this social media that were coming about and I stubbornly refused to join the hoopla. I was going to communicate with Christmas cards and phone calls. I was going to devote the time that Facebook takes from its users to my children. I was going to remain steadfast in my aversion to social media.
Then I wrote a book. And my publisher, Booktrope, bases its marketing plan on social media activity. I am cornered. I want my book to succeed but I am woefully behind in learning how to tweet, or post or whatever. I gratefully am assigned a wonderful Project Manager, Heather Huffman, who has painstakingly explained and reexplained and even re-reexplained how to maneuver Facebook and Twitter. I am learning, but like I said at the beginning, each post takes a lot of thought and work on my part. So, go ahead and friend me! I'll have an engaging, witty, spontaneous response---eventually.
Let me explain. I was a television news reporter and anchor in the late 1980's, early 1990's. Sure, I had to keep up with the latest trends, but the internet hadn't even come into being yet. So when I left my career in 1993 to focus on having a family, I was blissfully unaware that there was this world-changing, technological "monster" waiting to come about and start voraciously eating up the time of all its users. That's how I viewed it.
At first, I wasn't the only one who held back, preferring pencil and paper snail mail to email. Eventually, through other jobs I took, I did get the hang of email. I even started paying my bills online. But there was still all this social media that were coming about and I stubbornly refused to join the hoopla. I was going to communicate with Christmas cards and phone calls. I was going to devote the time that Facebook takes from its users to my children. I was going to remain steadfast in my aversion to social media.
Then I wrote a book. And my publisher, Booktrope, bases its marketing plan on social media activity. I am cornered. I want my book to succeed but I am woefully behind in learning how to tweet, or post or whatever. I gratefully am assigned a wonderful Project Manager, Heather Huffman, who has painstakingly explained and reexplained and even re-reexplained how to maneuver Facebook and Twitter. I am learning, but like I said at the beginning, each post takes a lot of thought and work on my part. So, go ahead and friend me! I'll have an engaging, witty, spontaneous response---eventually.