
From Author Rebecca Grabill
This Joyful Mess

2025 Update to “Saying Goodbye: Why I Broke Up With Instagram” Plus: What Social Media Can(not) do for Authors
I felt betrayed … and foolish. I was ready to be done with social media once and for all. And yet I still faced an expectation that I would be engaging, posting, sharing my life with the hope that all this cyber-standing-in-the-road-waving-myself would sell more books. If I just engaged more, posted more, changed my strategy and platforms and spent more time …

How do I get out of Reaction Mode?
I had dreams for my family life, for the kids education, for my own recreation time (which currently clocked in at daily total of zero minutes, zero seconds). I longed to do things like knit, read books with real pages, write for the joy of it. Instead, I was living life of reacting—not to God’s direction—but to people’s momentary expectations, urgent tasks all shoving and bickering to be FIRST on my list. I was desperate to get back to the most important focus of every day...

Saying Goodbye: Why I Broke Up With Instagram
I stopped posting to Instagram in November of 2020. And in so doing (or, not doing, I suppose), I noticed some things… First, there’s very little “Social” about Social Media.
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