The Question of Facebook

I have stayed the course in my abstention from I-Phone, apps and Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. I know eventually, if I want to market my 'wares' I'll have to embrace all of that but I'm afraid of the consequences ----there seem to be so many listed these days in the Daily News.

Facebook , despite followers turning off periodically, seems essential to small business, but boy, am I loath to partake of that forbidden fruit. The short story I wrote for the Toronto Star* contest ---Unfriended---takes aim at the problems of being connected to this behemoth, demonstrating the life impact of such an association. If more of my work actually starts to roll and gets published , I'll have no choice , but until then I'm avoiding those Laocoon-y coils like the plague .

*The TorStar Contest requires the story to be printed on paper ---rather old fashioned in this day of e-mail attachments --and a pre-paid postcard that they will send back to advise receipt. A couple of years ago I entered a story that didn't go anywhere with them, and I think my postcard design and text : Dear Charlotte, we are in receipt of your manuscript ...but will only contact contest winners or some such , might have given the postman on delivery, a moment of amusement at least . ( I had reprinted the original, taped it all over , re- stamped and sent off with Unfriended manuscript in the original envelope. Just received back today, which shows anything , but anything , will go through the Canada Post mail .... )