{"id":6930,"date":"2017-02-01T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6930"},"modified":"2017-02-06T23:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T23:28:13","slug":"month-without-social-media-well-sort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/02\/month-without-social-media-well-sort.htm","title":{"rendered":"A month without social media. Well, sort of&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Seymour (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bseymour\">@bseymour<\/a>) made a very pertinent point <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/benseymour\/making-the-most-of-your-fears\">in a recent Milton Keynes Geek Night talk<\/a> when he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/benseymour\/making-the-most-of-your-fears\"><p>&#8220;At no point did I find myself\u00a0wishing I&#8217;d spent more time on Twitter&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THIS!\u2026 so much from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bseymour\">@bseymour<\/a> last night at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MKGN?src=hash\">#MKGN<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/11vEcLHhKZ\">pic.twitter.com\/11vEcLHhKZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MK Geek Night (@MKGeekNight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MKGeekNight\/status\/774206854197022720\">September 9, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So, when one of my friends said he would give up social media for January, I thought it would be worth a try too. After all,\u00a0if a brand and marketing communications Consultant can do without #socmed, then so can I!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I made some exceptions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twitter is work. It&#8217;s how I keep up to date &#8211; and how I build my personal brand (if that doesn&#8217;t sound too pretentious). Having said that I&#8217;ve been too busy for most of January to tweet much.<\/li>\n<li>Ditto for my blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I turned off notifications for LinkedIn, Facebook, Facebook Messenger and some more. And then I realised how many channels I have &#8211; for example WhatsApp is one of the methods my son uses to contact me. That&#8217;ll be another exception then. Then there&#8217;s Strava. Hmm&#8230;\u00a0well, I guess it&#8217;s not so much social media as where I track my activity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The main one to drop was Facebook. So, how did that go? Really, I haven&#8217;t missed it at all. 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