"All my life, waiting to find." (Still.)

[greygirlbeast]

This morning on Facebook I posted one of my favorite Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes: I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden. And I said, "These days, this quote makes me think of my father, who died in 2007. We'd been estranged since 1990. We did not speak the last 17 years of his life, and that is one of those great regrets

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[everville340]

...my agent says I have to be on "social media."

This sounds like a peek into the secret evils of the publishing world not generally known to the general public.

[harrietbrown]

Have you considered having two social media identities? One could be for interacting with fans, readers, etc. (people you don't know personally) and another for personal friends/relatives (if there are any with whom you wish to interact on social media) and/or professional connections. Supposedly you need to use your own name on Facebook, but there are ways around that, people have discovered. That way you could keep the two separate, and keep your private life private, or at least not as open to public consumption. If you've already considered this, I apologize for bringing it up. You're intelligent, you've probably figured this out and rejected it. I'm not a fan of social media. I prefer LJ and DW. I use Facebook mainly for keeping up with distant family (I have a large extended family in Norway, and numerous nieces and nephews), and old friends I don't see often. Twitter I use to keep up on politics and with authors I like, such as N.K. Jemisin. I don't visit Twitter often, as politics can be very discouraging these days, both on