social media

New Year… New WTF?

anxiet, community, social media, Swinella, word-of-mouth 12th January 2025 Musings, New BooksZak Jane Keir

Back when blogging was the biggest deal in town for any small artist/writer/maker/commentator, I’m sure my Start The New Year posts were a little more cheerful than they have been so far on this site. Funnily enough, maybe the most … Continued

Platforms, promotions and feeding the monsters

enshittification, promotion, social media, Twitter 23rd November 2024 MusingsZak Jane Keir

‘Feeding the monsters’ is a phrase that came up in a conversation (online, of course) about 15 years ago, when using the internet – specifically, what we were still getting used to describing as social media – for promoting your … Continued

So You Think You’ve Been Cancelled

cancel culture, cancelled, censorship, grift, social media 5th September 2023 Musings, Other ThingsZak Jane Keir

Another day, another load of whining about ‘being cancelled… If you think this modern scourge is happening to you, here’s a handy checklist… Have you been given multiple interview slots on television, radio, podcasts with more than five listeners and … Continued

Are you leaving Twitter?

online safety, platform, porn, social media, Twitter 6th November 2022 Musings, Other ThingsZak Jane Keir

So, are you? Or are you one of those who could never be arsed with it in the first place? If you are a regular or semi-regular user of the blue birdie hangout you’ve probably noticed a huge increase in … Continued

Facebook and the latest moral panic

moral panic, power, social media, whining 14th October 2021 MusingsZak Jane Keir

WAAA, Facebook, WAAA! Once again, we’ve got a social media-related moral panic going on, and once again, some people one might have expected to know better are falling for it. Ooh, waa, boohoo, social media is bad for our mental … Continued

Too Explicit Or Not Too Explicit

explicit, porn, promotion, social media 11th April 2021 Other Things, Rantings, Sex stuffZak Jane Keir

Or, to revive a phrase some of us hoped to popularize at the end of last year, that state of being effectively caught between a crematorium and a dildo emporium. Basically, I got thrown off TikTok, rather to my annoyance. … Continued

Social Media and the indie author

facebook, marketing, self-publishing, social media, writers 5th April 2018 MusingsZak Jane Keir

So, apparently, ‘everybody’ is deleting their Facebook accounts. Nope. Not jumping on that bandwagon. It’s not even a new one. OK, as an Older Person, I have had a few issues with social media in general (when I first tried Twitter … Continued