I've quit posting links from my blog on Facebook

It has always bothered me to share the links of individual blog posts on Facebook; I would resolve to quit doing that, but then four or five Facebook friends would say they really wanted me to share the links there because otherwise, they forget to check the blog.  I'd give in and go back to sharing the links.  I'm done promoting it that way.

In the first place, my blog doesn't need huge numbers of readers.  It's for me to have a way to look back at my past 20 years and remember things I've done or people I've met.  It's also a way for relatives to keep up with what we're doing.  When I shared the link on Facebook, it felt like I was pandering for readers to come and read what I had to say.  If I mentioned on Facebook I was going to stop sharing it there, just to give them a heads-up, they'd say "please don't".  That made it appear I was trying to get people to beg me to stay.     

This time, I didn't say anything to anyone on Facebook about it, I just stopped sharing the link.  At the same time, I've been trying to have less presence on Facebook in general.  Some days I still catch myself sharing too many memes and jokes, but compared to the past, I've definitely slowed down.  Social media turns life into a garbage dump, before, during, and after the elections.  I need to limit it for my own mental health.  

Yes, my readership dropped from eighty to thirty, but the people who remain are good, long-time readers who feel like friends to me.  For some reason, I actually get MORE comments directly on my blog now, perhaps because some people would read it from Facebook and then comment on the link on Facebook, which is the easier way.

So the divorce between my blog and Facebook is set in stone.  I feel much better about that situation, and you know what?  Not one person has mentioned that they haven't seen a blog post lately.  In other words, people were scrolling down Facebook, bored, happened to see the link, and having nothing better to do, clicked it to see if there was anything unusual or interesting.  I'm not all that social a person, and I'm peculiar in many ways.  I imagine less that 5% of what I write would appeal to most folks, because I have very little in common with them.

With that said, I'll be back in the morning with some more pictures and words about Georgia.