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My daughter is addicted Wall-E. She can watch the thing about three times a day. Fortunately for me, I actually like this movie. There’s a part in the movie when a woman loses her computer signal, (which is directly in front of her face as she floats around in her hover-chair), and she notices for the first time that the ship has a swimming pool. She never noticed it before because she was always connected to the computer.
Have you ever felt like that? That you spend so much time connected electronically to everything that you don’t feel like you are spending quality time with people the old-fashioned way, face-to-face?
So I ask you, with all the promotion that we have to do as writers and all the different social media outlets out there, how much is too much?
Really, it’s all too much. But I’ve discovered, if you aren’t connected, you risk being left behind.
Also, I’ve actually been able to strength some of my ties with folks, via our online interactions. You do have to set limits. As long as the positives out weigh the negatives, it’s all good.