WATERMARK

a poet’s notebook

Established 02004

social media

July 21, 2009

Lost in the Social Media Landscape

No, sweet & silly Belle has nothing to do with the subject of this post — except that I made that image for a Facebook friend, and haven't done Friday Cat Blogging here for ages. Watermark used to be the center of my online life (which is much of my Real Life.) Now, there is… Continue reading

Blogging, Friday Cat Blogging 2009

Blogging, cat, catblogging, facebook, online life, photo, photograph, social media
May 5, 2009

Auto-Follow is Anti-Social: an introvert’s thoughts on social media

I have recently entered an entirely new (for me) internet world: the marketing Web. My Etsy shop, an attempt to offset some of my online costs, opened recently, after several weeks of research, exploration, and reading about online selling. I've read article after article on using social media — Facebook, Flickr, Twitter — to sell… Continue reading

Web/Tech

auto-follow, Blogging, facebook, Flickr, online marketing, social media, spam, Twitter

DISCLAIMERS:

Artificial Intelligence

I do not use AI to write. I believe writing is thinking, and I prefer to do my own. If/when I post anything here that I suspect or know to be AI generated, I will tell you.

Poems

Please do not assume that I am the speaker/ subject of my poems.

In these times of creative nonfiction and fictionalized memoirs, I think of the poem itself as true fiction: it is most likely not factual, but it must be true.

It is likely to be — it is best if it is — a truth I did not know before I wrote, and may not understand even then.

A poem is my way of discovering (dis-covering) what I feel; sometimes, what I think — but it is not necessarily biographical.

social media

Lost in the Social Media Landscape

Auto-Follow is Anti-Social: an introvert’s thoughts on social media