Perhaps you have been wondering why I don’t have Facebook, Instagram, or any other of those social media platforms that everyone seems to be using these day? Why do I only have Pinterest (that doesn’t get used much at all) and Goodreads?

Here are some reasons I don’t have social media.

1. It would take too much time. I’m already spending a lot of time on writing blog posts, writing, editing, formatting, cover design, and publishing stories, and if I tried to add one more place where I had to create new content, I think I’d go crazy.
   
   
2. I don’t have the ideas. I have enough trouble coming up with ideas for this blog. There’s no way I’d be able to come up with ideas for social media platforms too.
   
   
3. I don’t like Facebook. I don’t. I’ve never liked it. Why would I want to use it? Plus I’ve heard way too many stories about what can happen on some place like FB, so I skip it completely.
   
   
4. Instagram means I’d have to use my phone. I have a smart phone. It’s on if I’m going somewhere, or if I have to text someone or need to get a text. I don’t carry it around. And I’d have to have it on and take pictures and post things from it and that’s just annoying.
   
   
5. It is a terrible time waster. Let’s face it, social media is a creation designed to waste time, make people dissatisfied, tell perfect strangers anything and everything about you (how you feel, what you ate, what you saw, what you think, etc.) and frankly it’s creepy! Too many weirdos out there. *eyes soapbox but decides to stay off it*
   
   
6. It’s always changing! Good grief, I don’t have time to learn and relearn how to get my posts to be seen, or how to get more followers or more likes. Hey, I can’t even grow my blog to hundreds of followers, so why should I try something else that has strange things that change all the time?
   
   
7. I’m not interested. It all comes down to not being interested. I’m not interested in trying to post pictures of anything, or of trying to come up with things to say, or of learning how to work platforms that don’t interest me.

Okay, so that’s why I don’t use things like Facebook and Instagram and X and all those things. I’m not saying that someone else can’t or shouldn’t use them, only why I don’t.

But why do I use Pinterest and Goodreads?

Pinterest used to be more interesting. I have used it mostly for pinning pictures that I like and that might spark story ideas. (Some have!) I really don’t use it much.

Goodreads I use because I review every book I read and it’s a good place to post my reviews. Occasionally I’ll post some message about a book sale or a party or about KDWC, but those are not very often. I don’t use GR to update my reading of a book. (I’d rather just read the book.) And I don’t comment about a story as I’m reading it. (Again, I’d rather just read.)

That’s why I don’t have or use Social Media.

Do you have social media platforms? Do you also blog? What do you think about Social Media? If you had to pick one place to use (blog, facebook, instagram, pinterest, etc.), what would you choose?