{"id":10937,"date":"2025-03-12T22:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=10937"},"modified":"2025-03-12T22:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:25:34","slug":"done-with-social-media-as-a-social-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/12\/done-with-social-media-as-a-social-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"Done with Social Media as a Social Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I invited 12 friends to that Tiger Trials thing, after stressing and failing to invite 2 families (which is how many spaces there are), and then failing to get any takers at all after posting on Facebook, a local Facebook school group, Mastadon, and my blog. I included this important message in my invite:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of social media not helping to create community, but instead creating a feeling of isolation. So I&#8217;m going to try emailing more often. I hope it&#8217;s a welcome shift. Telephone and texting are still welcome, but email seems like the right middle-ground to invite a group of friends to an event where there is less of an expectation to attend. That said, feel free to not respond to this email! I might check in with you if it seems you didn&#8217;t get my message, they sometimes fall into spam holes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I invited 12 friends to that Tiger Trials thing, after stressing and failing to invite 2 families (which is how many spaces there are), and then failing to get any takers at all after posting on Facebook, a local Facebook school group, Mastadon, and my blog. I included this important message in my invite: I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10938,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937\/revisions\/10938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}