{"id":1864,"date":"2020-06-16T07:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T07:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2020-06-17T11:48:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T11:48:17","slug":"this-is-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"This is Publishing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve spent the last few days wrestling with the internet on various levels.  I was trying to get an account on Instagram for my husband, because he\u2019s installing new work at my friend Deborah\u2019s garden, it looks really good, and we need to publicize it, right?  I was also turning his website into a blog (www.michaelwhetman.com<\/a>), with the longer-term goal of publishing posts on Instagram.  Plus I\u2019ve been trying to add a \u201csubscribe\u201d function to my own website (www.nancyannroth.com<\/a>).  All this involved Facebook, because Facebook owns Instagram.  I got involved in an experiment my cousin Tom was doing on Facebook, a little test to whether anyone would actually read a post without a photograph.  Some did.  I read some recent posts from our relatives, one of them, I’m sorry to report, was a shameless, embarrassing \u201cHappy Birthday, President Trump\u201d message — I didn’t want to know that; a childhood friend and neighbour from my home town in the USA wrote that my mother had taught us (us being kids?) to \u201clove classical music at an early age\u201d. I can’t remember her ever even <\/em>listening to classical music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


Anyway, I’m old.  These “platforms” provide me with hours and hours of steady, spirit-corroding frustration.  I just want to say that Facebook sucks, Instagram may be worse, Twitter, well, what can you say?  With some exceptions, they are silos full of the sheerest twaddle, stored on servers that are NOT clouds, but tons of metal in the Pacific, heating up the water, killing beautiful plants and animals and reducing people\u2019s capacity to write, speak, think. 
Of course we do still have print\u2026but who reads that<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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