Done with Social Media as a Social Medium
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’m tired of social media not helping to create community, but instead creating a feeling of isolation. So I’m going to try emailing more often. I hope it’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’t get my message, they sometimes fall into spam holes!