I have been taking a lot of steps to reduce stress, find plenty of free time and simply slow down. I used to live a slow life, and then I started work that has me pretty busy.
The work itself (writing) doesn't wear me down. I enjoy it. The business side is complicated but okay for me.
What I found though was that my readers wanted me involved in social media in the beginning. At first, I didn't mind, I scheduled time for it. Sometimes I went in too much and the beginning of 2017, it was getting to me. I never used to be that involved, and I was losing time into it but not only that, it became something like I was babysitting groups trying to keep drama and problems to the minimum.
Basically, put a bunch of random strangers in a room, even if they liked the thing, eventually they bicker because they are different people.
I was tired of it and wanted to just slip off and be like "that writer in the cabin" that never really talked to anyone. However, I kept getting messages in email where people just assumed I was writing and would be back later. And then people were getting angry I wasn't online often enough.
I'd set the expectation that I would be around.
I have gone back online a little to pacify this. But now I'm looking at ways to reduce my presence without actually checking in every day. I started a blog where it connects to social media accounts. I turned the blog comments off and I don't check the comments on Facebook or anywhere else.
I'm now hoping people get used to this. I mostly update what I'm doing and what they want to know.
So now I'm looking at other things where I can retreat more, like setting posts up once a month and scheduling those.
And how many months of this can I go without having to see the feedback.
I'm not sure if anyone here maybe has the same issue, work or family expectation of being in some social media form. This has been my solution so far but would love to hear what you've done to reduce your online presence.
I've found I'm much happier when I'm not inside places like Facebook. I still enjoy things like YouTube but maybe because I don't read the comments there and just consume videos that make me happy, I don't feel soul crushed after.
Submitted July 06, 2017 at 10:48PM by travelheartberry http://ift.tt/2tnu8v6
