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The Love Bug's avatar

Thanks Jodi, I’ve been pondering my own life online and tbh I want to step back but finding it increasingly difficult to do - it’s a crutch I don’t want and in this political climate too how does one stay informed yet remove themselves from social media? The expectations of publishers too is that writers will be ‘out there’. I find this all extremely crushing. I want to be a good writerly citizen too!

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Kylie Orr's avatar

Thanks for sharing all your knowledge and insights on this very topical subject, Jodi. It's a minefield. My husband is in IT and has resisted social media since its inception whereas I was not so black and white about it. Now I find myself in a quandary, like everyone else. Pirated copies of my books have also been scraped to train AI. To me, it needs to be a corporate and government level of leadership to really put some boundaries around this new tech. It can't be up to the poor (figuratively and literally!) creators to try and combat these billionaires and their money-making agendas. Might go build a cabin in the woods...

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