Facets and Social Networks

Current social network technology strongly favors the former: if you write about just one area it’s much easier for algorithms to figure out who to show your posts to. And so you see a lot of advice to build your personal brand about an area: write about cooking, or housing policy, or military history.

This is very much not for me. I want to write about whatever I want to write about, which is a lot of different things, and I’ve generally just accepted that this is a bad fit for Facebook and the other places people read my writing.

The desire for an author to write about whatever they want to write about resonates strongly with my own desire for writing.

I can add this to the pile of excuses for why I haven’t shared my writing. Or I can just get over it and start writing.