I have some thoughts on social media I'd like to try to put into words, as a lot of words are being shared about Threads and Twatter and such today. When I started with social media, back in the mid 00s, it was on Facebook because it was a great way for me to connect with high school friends. I was also just getting started as a writer, and it helped me connect with a lot of other writers and writing groups. I started on Twitter around the same time. 1/x
Before then, it was online forums for various special interests, all of which died out fairly quickly. My Yahoo chat and AOL Instant Messenger went the way of MySpace as Facebook Messenger became my chat of choice, because that was where my friends were. As I started to build my writing business, I realized social media was going to be the only way for me to really get my work out there, to spread the word. So I started using it for marketing. 2/x
@ianthealy Did you ever use ICQ back in the day?
@JimmySheridanNV I did use ICQ a bit but I think it was only to chat with one or two people.
@ianthealy I used it a lot. Had some friends from the old Yahoo chat rooms and we merged into ICQ. It was a pretty good messenger app.