Now that Twitter is also broken…

Here’s a modest suggestion for connecting with your people

None of the people in these buildings know each other. None of the people in the apartments in the same building know each other either. Yet I’d bet each of them has more than 1000 “connections” on social media.

I’m old enough to remember when writing a letter in the mail or slipping a note under a door was the only way to securely know that a friend was going to receive your message. I vividly remember when “answering machines” first gave humans the ability to leave voice messages for each other without a third party involved — everyone howled when you didn’t have one of these brilliant new machines (similar to the howls of social media users when they discover you are not on their particular platform).

Like the initial restrictions of Twitter, those answering-machines would cut off your message when you went on too long, and too bad for you — there was no re-recording or previewing back then. Think ahead and be pithy, or feel stupid and be forgiven for it. Those were the days.

But enough about history — let’s talk about today. I am a fairly-old lady (“the fairliest in all the land”) and I personally manage to run 4 active accounts on Facebook (personal, author, nonprofit, and nonprofit private group), two very active on Twitter (personal and nonprofit), two active accounts on Linked In (company and self) and two accounts on Instagram (an abandoned one that I tried for personal reasons — to haunt my children’s public feeds ) and one that is for the nonprofit but now run by a capable…