{"id":451,"date":"2024-01-02T13:48:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T17:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/?p=451"},"modified":"2024-01-02T13:48:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T17:48:58","slug":"its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monicagraham.ca\/\/a-world-of-words\/2024\/01\/02\/its-been-a-while\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been a while"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have not updated this website and I apologize – mostly to myself, because I have been paying for its existence all this time and adding no content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook is so much easier… right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, not really. While Facebook keeps me in touch with a huge number of people, I find it annoying at times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reasons? a. – It won’t let me post interesting news articles that I read online, because they are Canadian sources and Facebook must pay to allow the links to stand. This is allegedly to protect Canadian authors and media from sharks all over the world who want to read CBC or whatever for free. The only way I can post a CBC news item is by actually copying it – I think. I haven’t tried it because it amounts to copyright infringement. I don’t like anyone copying my work for free so I’ll be damned if I do it to anyone else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

b. The facebook ads make me crazy. I have elminated all I can, and there are still a lot of ads. And the videos! I can read text faster than a talking head can talk. Plus I have been sucked into watching “what this man does with a yo-yo!” and the like. Torture – because in the end he does nothing with his yo-yo. I’d be better off watching a parliamentary committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook is a time-sucker. It goes like this: someone posts, I comment, and I wait for a like or, better, a love! I stay online to read and like other posts until I see that the poster has commented on my comment. Life is good. I am SEEN! Smacks of desperation, right?. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I do like about Facebook is the kindness people show to each other. Of course, if you are not kind on Facebook, you get called out fast enough. Just try telling a sick person to “suck it up, buttercup.” A firestorm of anger will melt your screen. Nope, better off to say you are sending prayers “to” them… really? If they could answer prayers they wouldn’t be sick in the first place. Pray FOR the ill person, not TO them. And God forbid that anyone should correct them – after all, they truly mean well. If it was my kid, though – I would explain the difference. Maybe. Or just get off facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have 2 facebook pages – one is supposed to be an author page and the other is a personal page. I use one when I get tired of the other, and then switch again. I am admin for a couple of other pages when the regular admin are away, and I started the page Read Local when I was dirty at the provincial education system for buying American books to place in Canadian schools while ignoring the plethora of good Canadian writing. Read Local is still out there. Every now and again I update it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The time-sucking aspect of Facebook is the main reason for me to withdraw from it. I have a novel in the works and it’s high time I finished it and move on to other projects waiting in the wings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch for the novel, and a prayer wouldn’t hurt – but, first, follow my Facebook page(s) and take bets on what I do with them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might hold a contest to see who guesses correctly – does a free copy of Scotch Willy entice anyone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find me still lurking on Facebook as Monica Graham and\/or as Monica E.R. Graham… for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wonder if FB will allow me to post a link to this website? I guess I’ll find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can email me via this site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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