Depends on my Mood

In what ways do you communicate online?

I don’t actually use social media much now, just Facebook and a small presence on Instagram. To be honest I don’t like it as a method of communication, it actually makes me feel more lonely sometimes.

I’m on Facebook as I have friends on there and am grateful to have a way to connect with them. I reconnected with Instagram with the idea of sharing my work more, but to be honest it’s such a melee now, plus it costs you so much to advertise, that I’ve dismissed it as a way to share my work.

I’m not natural at marketing, in fact I’m so bad that if you ask me to introduce myself to a group of people the only thing I can remember is my name and I have five cats.

It’s also hard to quantify my work because I only know what I’m going to do to try to help people when I meet them. I don’t have a pre-planned process, it’s very individual.

Apart from that it’s just this blog, and I really love doing this, I feel more connected to some of my fellow bloggers on here than I have in 20 years of social media. Probably because we have something in common, but also because generally you’re more varied and interesting.

However…terrible warning!

In the past week I have spent several hours on line getting Microsoft to repair the havoc they wrought on my computers.

It started with closing down one evening, switching on the next morning only to discover that every single document, photograph, and all my music had been removed by One Drive. Not only that, it was in the process of deleting everything.

As you may imagine, not something that I could have done by accidentally hitting one key, or by closing down. I have removed One Drive from every computer.

Then I opened my other laptop which had recently been repaired and I had decided to keep as a back up machine for us. Windows said it needed updates. They wouldn’t download.

I contacted Microsoft and they sorted it out. The next time I switched that one on the updates had corrupted my profile. I discovered this after two hours of Microsoft trying to work out what the heck had happened.

They set me up a new profile, and picked a restore point to put everything back together as it were. The next morning the new profile was gone, the restore had failed, and I couldn’t access settings.

In fairness Microsoft worked hard and put it all right. Their support crew are excellent.

To cap it all AVG did a scan and came up with 43 drivers that needed updating, dating back to 2006! I bought this computer in 2020, and only installed AVG 18 months ago. So AVG is going too.

All my computer scans come up clear. I am honestly beginning to wonder whether there are constant hackings we’re not being told about. I back up off line now, and I’m certainly not allowing any programme to update my drivers if it can make that much of a colossal mess.

You have been warned, time to take our reliance off the online world and bring it back under our control.

So yes…on line communication, overwhelming, infuriating, and best minimised if you want to maintain your sanity.

Best love

Amorah – Deb

P.S. If this is in Klingon…don’t look at me, it was English when I posted it!