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[eldabe]

So I was browsing Professional Writing Twitter, as I do*. And I'm following some links...and someone retweets Robin Hobb.

Now, I have two reactions. One, Robin Hobb is on twitter? I associate her so strongly with her books, a relic of my childhood, that it feels weirdly modern for me to see her on Twitter.

And second: ugh, Robin Hobb doesn't support fanfiction, click AWAY.

I mean, Anne Rice may be gone, but I remember the days of logging into ff.net and seeing an entire list of authors that don't allow fanfiction of their works. It was a startling experience as a baby fan. (And I stopped reading her books after that. There are THOUSANDS OF BOOKS in the world that I want to read, I'm okay missing one or two.)

*Rule is that I can't log into twitter. I've deactivated all of my accounts. This means that I generally hit up one or two twitter accounts of professionals that I like and then I get so frustrated by how much Twitter tries to FORCE you to make an account and log in that I walk away before I hit existential crisis levels of Twitter angst.

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[lannamichaels]

*Rule is that I can't log into twitter. I've deactivated all of my accounts. This means that I generally hit up one or two twitter accounts of professionals that I like and then I get so frustrated by how much Twitter tries to FORCE you to make an account and log in that I walk away before I hit existential crisis levels of Twitter angst.

ngl, the collapse of all the force-twitter-to-have-rss-feeds-again sites was probably a net gain for me. I'd still like to get ao3 status and a couple other accounts, but all in all, losing the rss feeds was probably not a bad thing for me.

Similarly, the way facebook has now made there need to be SO MUCH SCROLLING to get to the next post is doing great at making my every-so-often log-ins to facebook take even less time before I close the (private alternate browser) tab.

[eldabe]

Yeppp. I get sad when I miss news from my favorite writers, as twitter is the main form of PR and communication these days, but not enough to really want to go back to Twitter you know? (I do check AO3statues when things seem fumbly on AO3 haha)

Facebook I'm still on, because most of my friends are fairly active there, but I'm trying to cut back too.

Honestly, the problem for me is that I don't have enough places online where I can just hang out. I...don't really like tumblr that much. But at least I'm getting good at cutting down on sites that make me miserable!