The Digital Crafting of Me
With my last post, I shared a few of my disorganized thoughts and experiences on forming a digital self . This post, I'm going to explore some of my methodology for hopefully crafting said self and maintaining sanity IRL (In Real Life). First, some guidelines you should consider: Don't Spam You know this one and I know you know this one because every writing blog worth its salt mentions this at least once. Basically, you are what you post online. So, if you post nothing but advertisements for your next book you risk becoming a cardboard cut-out or a billboard. Don't flatten yourself. Keep it Reasonable Don't just make a million accounts, thinking you're going to get a million followers on each one. In order to have an online presence you kind of have to engage in the community. You need to reblog, retweet, like, share, and comment. If you have too many accounts you won't be able to keep up with all of them; you'll be spreading yourself too thin. Ins...