Why I Now Prefer Book Blogging Over Social Media
This may seem like an odd post at first considering this is a book blog, but so be it. Over the last couple of years or so, I've struggled more and more with social media, which came to a halt of sorts in early September 2025, where I deleted all social media apps on my phone, which meant I could only access them on my laptop if I wanted to do so. There's multiple reasons for that and one of them being that I felt that it was honestly not that social anymore and lacking both authenticity and real connection, for intance between my so-called friends on Facebook. Not that I DON'T have real connections with some of my friends on Facebook, but with a few, that connection existed before we were even "friends" on that platform. For how often do people rely on social media for updating themself on what friends and/or family are up do and how they're doing, rather than actually calling, texting, or for that matter, meeting up with them in real life? Yes, I know a lot ...