I try using Social Networks
To bring people over to my blog
But being so tech-illiterate
I feel like I’m lost in the fog.
Linked in is more like locked out
I don’t really know what to do
Twitter makes me bitter
As I haven’t got a clue!
Pinterest lost my interest
Many months ago
On Instagram, I have no likes
Because I am so slow.
Facebook I can cope with
I don’t get in a rage
I’d love for you to visit
And ‘like’ my Facebook page!
Lol! Bless you sis! Social Media gets us all at times!! Love your rhyme!
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Thanks Sis. I am much better at it now, but sometimes it still drives me mad! 🙂
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Social media can be such a demanding mistress!
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Well consider it done. Although, I thought I already had. Maybe that was your other site?
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Cute but, wow, so true. Except swap out the Facebook for Twitter and you’ve described me. I am Anti-Social (media). They pretty much all drive me bonkers.
(LOVE the title of this!)
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HA! I am getting better but still have moments when they drive me mad! Glad it is not just me.
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It is not just you. It really isn’t. And, I’ve found out over the years, those who seem to have it all together…don’t always. 😉 Just saying. Some do, though. And more power to them!
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Hopefully, I’ll get to that point where I am a whizz at Social Media. By then we would probably have moved on to something else!
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Love this, Judy!
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Thanks Charli 🙂
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I’m with Sarah, so you’re gonna have to swap Facebook for Twitter, Judy. I got thrown off Facebook, so you won’t find me on there anymore. Almost came back, but I had to slap myself and say ‘where I am going to find the time?’ ?
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Why on earth did you get thrown off Facebook, Hugh? I am getting a lot better on Twitter now actually, but it is a very slow process! 🙂
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Good to hear, Judy. I prefer it out of all the social media sites.
My Facebook account got hacked, so there was some eye-popping stuff on it for all of about 5 minutes. It took them ages to sort it out. By the time they did, I decided to stay clear and spend the time on my other social media accounts. I don’t miss being on it and get to see you all on WordPress anyway. ?
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Oh no, that is a shame Hugh, but I don’t blame you for leaving it alone after that! I have just found Facebook the easiest of all of them to use. Still, i am becoming more adventurous in my old age, what with Flipboard and StumbleUpon too. 🙂
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That’s me to a T..Although I can now add a photo on twitter..yeah… only took me half a century to work that one out…
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Yay! I am impressed Carol. 🙂
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So am I, Judy…lol 🙂 x
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Love the poem. Social media can be very annoying and I must admit I am not the best at them.
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I am learning but it is a very slow process! 🙂
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I am hearing you Judy, fun poem. Always good to laugh at things that can be so frustrating!! Less is more is my motto!
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Oh I go barging into things at full tilt without a clue what I ma doing then end up getting in a mess! 🙂
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Practice makes perfect? 🙂
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Yes, I will get there in the end! 🙂
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I will follow you and like,
And hope you do the same.
More important is to smile.
It’s the way to keep us sane.
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I appreciate your follow
and of course, will follow you too
After such a lovely rhyme
It is the least that I can do! 🙂
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What a fun poem and see on twitter, I was able to follow you. Well done in sharing how you feel and getting those rhyming words perfect. 🙂
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Thanks so much Paul, I am so glad you enjoyed it:-)
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Haha. This is great and sums up how I feel most of the time 🙂 One of my 2018 goals is to Master Twitter. We’ll see!!
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Oh, well I wish you good luck with that, Jill! I am still not that good with Twitter! 🙂
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Nice one Judy, am I detecting a moment of damn social media as the inspiration for it? I certainly empathise with that after nearly three months off and coming back with eh? What’s happened to the mojo? Why are there cobwebs on my blog? What’s my log in passwords #eek.
New year though and must get some follower targets, well, maybe a post it two first!
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Hi Gary, nice to see you back! This was a poem I wrote quite a while ago when I was trying to get to grips with Socia media and didn’t really have much of a clue! Of curse, I tried to do it all at once as well and it wasn’t going well. However, now I am slowly but surely mastering a couple more of them, and plodding on with the others!
I am sure it won’t take you long to get back into the swing of things and you will soon gain more followers. 🙂
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I’m actually 25 short of 1000 on here for some bizarre reason, 7500 on Twitter too. Explain that if you can because ive no idea what I’m doing lol. I need to get that sorted really. In truth, I do know what I’m doing, just not being consistent enough. But then I have to balance social media against writing. I just can’t do both and the latter is why I’m here in the first place! However two and a half mi the out has really made it harder to get the mojo going which is why I jumped onto blogs I know from BUYB today. Really enjoyed reading them too, so that might work to inspire me social media wise again ?
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You have got a great following, Gary. I know that it takes a lot of time to build up a good social media following.
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Time is the great conundrum as a writer. You need to write or muck about on social media lol. Trying to do both is really impossible unless you live alone in one room and have no life!!! Last year I overcooked social media and wrote nothing as a result. When NaNo started it was the first writing since the previous event. This time I consciously scrapped social media time to work in it and managed to finish it. I lost the balance in hindsight. Although on the other hand it did build up a following….and now I’ve just neglected it lol. Rock…writer….hard place !
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Yes, it is quite a dilemma knowing which one to concentrate on as both take up so much time! Hopefully you will be able to find a balance. 🙂
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Agreed, especially if you want to do them properly. Still, beta readers have the draft now so time to catch up here, maybe even write a post lol
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That’s great Gary, I wish you all the best with your book 🙂
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Thanks Judy, it’s a way off publication as the prequel needs finishing first lol
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Well, the main thing is you have made a start!
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It is pretty and true. Blinking social media! Definitely would encourage me to click though…?
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Well, some of it is becoming clearer to me now, although others I am still very wary of. 🙂
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This is a great poem which made me giggle!
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I am glad you enjoyed it Lauren, I thought others may be able to relate to it. I am learning more now though – slowly! 🙂
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Very funny! Loved it!
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Thanks, Phil. I am pleased to say I am getting better at it now! 🙂
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I’m so gutted Pinterest isn’t working for you anymore after you put all that work in! I’m still struggling with bits of social media too, feel like I’m putting loads of effort in and not getting much back from it! Great poem!
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No Suzie! I wrote this poem a couple of years ago when I had no clue on how to use any of the Social Networks very well. I am doing well on Pinterest now and have got 358 follows when I only started with 88, and that is because of your hard work and what you taught me. I regularly go on Pinterest when I have time. I feel dreadful as it was not intended in any way to be complaining, just my tongue-in-cheek take on Socal media as a whole which I thought would be fun to share as I thought others may be able to relate to it. xx
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Hahaha! I didn’t think you were complaining at all lovely – I thought that since your website has crashed your Pinterest has messed up too!
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Yes, it did go a bit haywire because of the different blog names, but fingers crossed it is OK. I just hope I don’t break anything else! 🙂
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That wasn’t you breaking it lovely, it was the stupid internet…
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It has a lot to answer for, Suzie!! 🙂
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Very fun, Judy! I’m pretty sure I already have. But will make sure to do just as you say–Like your Facebook page. Social media can be a real bugger. I was just thinking how I’m neglecting instagram!
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OMG, Instagram! I am very neglectful of that at the moment! I am concentrating on Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter for now which is more than enough!! Thanks for liking my page. 🙂
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Haha I this so much and can completely relate social media is just not how it used to be.
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Well I am sure that just as I master it completely it will change!!! 🙂
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This is so funny and so me! My kids completely regret putting me on social media because I don’t really know how to use it properly, link the wrong things and embarrass them! And it is so time consuming – how do people have time to blog, tweet, instagram like, do whatever you do on Tumblr and Pin?? Beyond me!!
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I know! My daughter can do all kinds of things on there that I have no hope of ever getting my head around! 🙂
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Awesome poem! I love it! Social Media can be so overwhelming!
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Thanks, Lisa. I know, and it makes me so cross when I can’t get the hang of some of it! 🙂
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I know what you mean and things change so fast, it’s hard to keep up!
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I wish I wasn’t so into all of them (all but Pinterest. I used to like it, but I don’t get on with it now). Bloody social media takes up so much time, but I only have myself to blame really ha.
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I mostly use Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter, as they are the ones that I am most competent in!!!
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hahaa..loved it! Don’t we all struggle 😛
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Thanks, Yes, especially as it often changes! 🙂
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Judy E Martin
Hello, and thanks for stopping by. I am Judy, in my (very) early fifties and decided that life definitely gets more interesting as it goes on! I am a wife and a mum and have just finished University as a Registered Nurse, after having worked as an Associate Practitioner in the NHS. I am also a poet and the author of my debut book, 'Rhymes of the Times.' I love to laugh, and I love rhyming words too, so I joined the two together, and my book was born. I am currently working on another book in the series also. I am a prolific blogger and enjoy writing funny stories, anecdotes, and anything really that takes my fancy.
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