Dear Blog,
How has your digital life been treating you? My physical world (analog world?) life has been ticking along without much to report. In my digital life I’ve been checking out Threads more. There don’t appear to be nearly as many active users as Twitter (I mean X? Ugh… just awful), but there seems to be a healthy amount of active users on the platform.
Overall, people seem to be friendly and talkative, which is great. There also seems to be a large population of people with various mental health related issues, as well as people who offer advice about dealing with these issues. I’m not looking to use it as a tool to deal with my issues, but it’s nice to see that people are publicly open about these things (especially since being emotionally honest and open was kind of taboo when I was younger). Maybe this is normal behavior on social media sites these days? I’ve never really been active on social media. I’m on Facebook, but that was usually more of a tool for reaching out to people and organizing events (and posting random vacation pictures of course). And now Facebook, I think, is just for baby pictures? I’m also on LinkedIn so I can get random spam messages.
I’ve been looking to get more involved in social media, but recently the whole landscape has been pretty shaky, so I wasn’t sure where to invest my time. Especially since some of these platforms might not even exist in a year or two. I don’t have any definite goals at this point, but I’d like to connect with people with similar interests and see what other creative works people are involved in in art and music. Also connecting with people who are in similar life situations. So we’ll see where this takes me! It’ll be an interesting new adventure! I’m still not exactly sure how you “cultivate” your feed on Threads though… I’ll just keep clicking on stuff and hoping it works in the meantime. What could go wrong!?
Thanks for listening, as always blog! Maybe you don’t really have a choice here since… I’m writing ON you, but I still appreciate it!
I hope you and everyone else is having a good week!
My threads account can be found at: www.threads.net/@paternia_prosidia (I’m pretty sure that’s how you share it…), if anyone is interested. It’s still definitely a work in progress, like so many things in my life!
-Karl
Paternia Prosidia 
Good luck traveling the social media landscape fellow sahd. You’re certainly insightful and witty enough for Threads. Personally, I always thought of WP as social media because I was lucky to find a group of friends in the middle 2010s who did the personal journaling thing, we gravitated to each other but after most of us burned out from blogging after 5-6 years, it took me awhile to figure out the genie would probably not realisitically be put back in the bottle. I keep sharing because….I dunno why, haha! partly maybe because I’m not on social media like FB or IG. I’ve been glacially moving toward Flickr for photography. Still, old habits die hard, so here I am.
the videos you shared of your songs here are cool. One of your songs was very pretty, that seems like a clear path to hanging in there long enough and meeting others over time, who are doing voice and recording
It seems like you mainly come here to check in with blog, but it’s nice reading some fellow sahd 🙂
-Jason
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Thank you fellow SAHD! I definitely missed peak blogging popularity. Several friends used sites like live journal in college, but I was never into it when I was younger. I like having the ability to create longer, more in depth “posts”. I don’t think any of my friends do any blogging these days. But, I do it for myself as well as for sharing.
Thank you for the kind words! I’m just trying to get some creative activities in when I have the time / energy. I’m not really sure what the path forward is for me in terms of so many things, but I like sharing some things when I can! It’s nice to see other fellow SAHDs around here for me as well!
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