https:\/\/www.nostringsattachedpuppets.com<\/a> which was not built until about two years ago. It took me ten years to create my website. I am a little embarrassed by that.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThere are social media platforms I have tried and discarded. They were not a right fit or I was not comfortable with them. Some still exist and others have vanished from the World Wide Web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have been honest about myself and my life out here. There are things I don\u2019t talk about by choice or because we have signed an NDA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have talked about my mental health very frankly and plan to continue to do so. Years ago, I was warned that I would be un-hirable if I persisted on talking about my bouts with depression and anxiety and my suicide attempts, I would never be hired in the publishing industry again. We will see if they were right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I felt it more important to let others know that they are not alone. Others do feel how they feel. I fought my way to where I am now. It took a lot of work, but I am better than I have been in years. COVID almost knocked me down. I got help and got up again. Something I didn\u2019t do years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know I have helped people because they have told me so to my face and on-line. I feel that if I can prevent one suicide, worth it. If I can get one person to seek help for their mental issues. It has been worth it. If what I say here gives anyone hope, then I have done well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also talk about my family and our adventures along with puppetry and my creative mind and other things I find interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am not my mental health, however my mental health is part of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have read various articles about Facebook and its other platforms and what we don\u2019t know about what the algorithm is doing to us as a society and to our children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Social Media is influencing all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We can choose how much and be on the lookout for where it is invading where we don\u2019t want it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I like that my iPhone asks if I want an app to follow me. I think we should all have that choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remember that what you do on the Internet becomes you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You build your house there you can let people sit on your porch or shoo them off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is your space. Don\u2019t let others including the platforms dictate how you be you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Remember to take what you see with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everyone who declares that they know THE SECRET to living a fabulous life still have their off days. They just don\u2019t share those things that would be negative because that would be \u2018off-brand\u2019, a phrase I truly despise. Bad days happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What you see on screen is not reality but only what others care to share with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I honestly think that, overall, the Social Media is not a bad thing. How we use it, what we believe from it and how we let it affect us is much more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am grateful for the positive things that have come out of Social Media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been on a social media platform since I joined AOL back in 1989. That would be thirty-two years or more than half my life. That\u2019s a lot of years to build up a footprint. I have mostly been a blogger all those years. About fifteen years ago, I joined Tumblr. I joined Facebook about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t