Invisible? I'll just keep tweeting.

Giving up social media for 2 days wasn't going to be any big deal for me, I only use my phone for text and calls, never internet, so it hardly seemed worth switching it off. I did switch it off and stayed away from the PC too, no  checking email, Facebook, twitter,Google+, LinkedIn or blogging.

 I did miss the #ping ping# of receiving and sending texts and did go mooching for the phone to check; only to remember, mid mooch,it was off. I missed out on my weekly goggletext with my daughter,( we watch Gogglebox together via text,me in Drogheda her in Dublin). I missed the twitter reviews of the show too, but they survived with out me.

My phone was off for a total of 36 hours and I was a bit excited to switch it on, to see who had missed me, what I had missed, and to let the world know i was fine and back in social media land. What greeted me was a blank screen, no missed calls, no messages, nothing at all! A  little disappointed I ventured to check my  Facebook page, no invites, no notifications,again nothing; nothing on  google+  either, what the heck? Am I invisible? Does no one miss my funny little jokes, my quirky humour? Am I totally irrelevant in this cyber world?

 It is interesting, and more disheartening  to learn  that so many people underestimate their social media presence. A little disappointed, I wallowed in it for a little while, but i am not one to be beat, so I got right back on the social media horse and decided that I can be part of the noise if nothing else.

"If you’re like most people, you probably underestimate the size of your actual social media audience because on social media, engagement doesn't equal reach". Heidi Cohen. http://bit.ly/invisable

Really what is the point? We have the technology now, and the interest in each other, why not use it? Fasting from social media did not leave me harking back to yesteryear, when one phone-box per housing estate qualified as contactable.
The technology that brought us Facebook, snapchat, and twitter is here to stay. It is like one of those optical puzzles; it takes ages to see what it is, but when you see it you can never unsee it; we can never "unsee" the mass communication networks we have adapted so readily.