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About Face? [Cringe]

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Alright...It's been close to a week without my PERSONAL social media accounts. At first I had deleted everything. I uploaded a podcast episode about deleting social media. Then immediately I walked back my full deletion, undeleting my music accounts...then re-deleting my music accounts. (@therockingchads; @reubensinnemamusic) Ultimately I undeleted them yet again! What I had not anticipated: First, I had some real and meaningful conversations about social media with some good friends and close family members. Second, If you don't have a social media presence on at least one platform, you miss gigs, musically speaking. That is, shows you may want to see AND shows you could potentially play, if you're a musician. Case in point: Last night I worked the merch table at a Jacob Rountree show where I made some helpful musical connections! This gets to a great conversation I had with my cousin Wes. He told me exactly why he's on Facebook: To connect with relatives and for his ...
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A Farewell to Conventional Social Media

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Here's my first blogular (not a word) proclamation in years: I've deleted Facebook and Instagram AGAIN! I've done this at least five times over the last twenty years. I don't present this from a position of pride. I'm not proud of myself and how I've handled my social media presence--or addiction. I never really can stick to my decisions to delete my accounts. Theres an addiction element, a fear-factor (thanks Joe Rogan), a familial connection element, a communal element, and all of these things are tied together.  My goal here is to reflect on my relationship with social media and hopefully help all two of you reading this to reflect on yours. For the sake of length, to honor your time, I'm going to break this into a few posts so as not to tax your attention span and increase your burden of boredom. First, some background: I don't like social media. I never have and I never will. In fact, I loathe it. I'm not kidding. Sidebar: Is blogger a social me...
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