Facebook…I love you, but I hate you!

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May 24, 2025

Hello! So much has changed in a week since I last posted…as I continue this uphill trudge towards broadening the children’s literature community with my diverse books, there seems to be only one central barrier in my way-Facebook. I love it…I hate it! I decided to take an ad out to promote my Facebook page and website. For five dollars per day, my ad circulates through Facebook cyberspace and hopefully reaches my targeted audience. So far, so good…in just three days, I have 1389 views on my page and 22 clicks on the link to my website. Plus, a couple more likes. I would say definitely well worth it!

The only down side…I obsessively keep checking back to see my promotion statistics- this brings me to my main page too. So, while I’m here, I figure I might as well check the status of my groups, make a post or two and then suddenly I’m caught in the vortex of Facebook time kill! It’s not that I don’t enjoy networking with fellow group-ees, commenting and sharing and such- it’s just that this is time that I really should be spending on writing! Not to mention how sore my back feels hunched over my computer all day…I do enough of this in my day-to-day writing.

This leads me to wonder WHY I’ve been spending so much time browsing through Facebook…Why? Mostly, I enjoy the communication, comradery and like-minded interaction with fellow writers! This is my cyber playground- my clubhouse, where me and my gang meet and share our stories, advice and casual friendship. I don’t think I want to give this up. I am beginning to create an important and supportive place where I can just be me-Tracy Bryan the Author.

But…too much of a good thing doesn’t seem to work with me-I’m not sure why I constantly need to overdo something that feels good or is fun! I don’t quite meet the criteria for addiction to Facebook, but I have been feeling those familiar triggers…just one more look, post, like, click…This really applies to anything that we do too much and honestly, I know better-moderation is rule in my life!

So, I won’t give up my Facebook, but I think I need to promise myself to notice how much time I’m spending in my clubhouse…just like everything else in life- we have to work hard to play hard.

Hi Ho Hi Ho!