I confess there are times when I fall out of love with Twitter big style and I just have to stop myself from going there. It brings out the worst in me. It’s not so much the way it can eat into my time as the way it preys on my insecurities and jealousies. (Yes, I confess to my shame, I often feel both these things) Times like these it’s as if the whole writing world is more successful than me. Times like these I’m not a part of the clique. I don’t belong.
BUT – other times I LOVE Twitter for all the great people I meet there and for the way it brings me news of opportunities and events and the way it can motivate and inspire. I especially love it for its politics – in my feed anyway
And – times like yesterday when complete strangers Tweet away it’s double love! But then I end up on the self -promotion trail (its hard not to publicise your Twitter love – especially when you’re an indie author ) which takes me right back to the beginning. I guess that’s the nature of these love, hate relationships
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I agree with you about Twitter and other social media- it’s a love/hate relationships. However, even the love/hate is only permissible within a range. That’s why I stay off it. Freedom, is the freedom to always think differently- Rosa Luxemburg. See, even that is enough to prompt a conviction of lunacy/ extremism et al. I’m only an extremist when it comes to Easter eggs and the quality of a cup of tea! Oh, and damning some author from the armchair for writing a contemptuous like lol! Happy Easter, Avril, – would that expression be an offence these days on social media . . . . ad absurdum infinitum , while made up, sounds Latin-ish to me!