What a great post by Nicholas C. Rossis. I’m a JOMO. I don’t give a rat’s ass if I’m missing out. I’ve deleted my Facebook account, and I’m loving it (also considering which other social media site to delete). JOMOs like myself hate industry cocktail parties and making small talk with people you’ll never see again, also airline travel and new technology.
When I was in my first year at Uni, about a century ago or so, I took a summer job. For a few months, I was running a one-man quality control lab. I was responsible for taking daily samples of cement, processing it, and recording a number of data including temperature, moisture, etc.
This was the last job I ever held in an office, if it can even be considered that. Ever since, I’ve worked from home. Which is probably why a writer’s life suits me so well.
I thought of this when I came across an article on The Economist. Its author argued that workers, and possibly all people, can be divided into two groups. Those who like to be involved in everything and can be dubbed “FOMOS” because they suffer from a “fear of missing out”. And then there are those who would ideally want to be…
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Stevie Turner 
Again, I’m with you. 😉
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I think it would be less stressful just to have one social media account. I’ve ditched Instagram and Facebook. I’m certain that LinkedIn will be the next to go!
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I know the struggle Stevie. I’m on Instagram and check in twice a year lol 🙂
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Do any of the social media sites help to sell books I ask myself, lol?
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Good question, so I just put my time into the sites where I have most interaction, while trying to grow on MeWe. FB I just think our livelihoods depend on being noticed and if we don’t work our social media, who will know us? Lol or not. 🙂
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I have the most interaction here on WordPress. On LinkedIn all I get are contacts from people trying to offer me paid services, so that one will be going soon. Twitter and MeWe are helpful, and so I’ll keep them, but I find it’s overwhelming trying to manage too many social media sites. Too much sharing and commenting and not enough time for writing as far as I’m concerned.
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I’m with you on time consuming, but our books live in a digital world and if we stopped being part of social media, would anyone even know who we are and what we do? We have to choose carefullyl but something. 🙂
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I’ve chosen WordPress, MeWe and Twitter. I think three is enough. It’s too overwhelming trying to stay active on too many sites.
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Good for you! 🙂
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I have no idea how to format and am not really interested in it, so willingly pay somebody to do it. I’m missing out on learning about it, but I don’t care!
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I don’t mind new technology. I have no idea how to write code or do any of that, but I am a user of tech. To the end that it further makes me a JOMO and less dependent on people who charge $ for things I can do as well, if not better. Take epub formatting and conversion. Or a writing program that visually keeps track of where I am. I’ll give it an hour or two if it will save me trouble time and $ downstream. Otherwise? And that network meeting stuff? There’s a whole post in that…
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