I've been around a long time. To be honest, I would prefer a tidy, simplified digital footprint, but when you have varying types of content, I guess it's inevitable.
The majority of my content is my website devoted to the Mayfair Witches novels by Anne Rice. Over time, as social media was growing in use, imagination led to innovation in the form of digital content creation. I learned how to do other things. When I gave my Mayfair Witches website, Come Into My Parlor, an overhaul in 2023, fifteen years after its launch in 2008, I started to integrate content, starting with YouTube. I write my text myself and always have. But--I also wanted to provide some of my own design and graphics.
For me, YouTube is more of an extension rather than simply a video host or
social media (though it is both of those things as well as a search
engine). Still, I began to include social media--Facebook, Instagram,
etc. As I've tested different platforms for different things, I also had
other types of content that were not Mayfair Witches-related. Blending
it in with the Mayfair Witches was a strategy that allegedly muddles
hexes algorithms, so I ended up creating or renaming some of
my social media to keep the non-Mayfair Witches content separate.
In the case of YouTube, I have a secondary channel for that.
What ended up happening is a weird mishmash with different names for different types of content. How is anyone supposed to keep all this straight? Where can folks find stuff of mine they'd like to see and might even like?
And wherever shall Those Who Wish to Troll look?
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Sanderson Sisters,
Hocus Pocus 2 Disney (2022) |
Allow me to take all the fun out of guessing.
No, I do not provide links to my personal accounts. Guess why.
Look to the right column of this blog. There is a section devoted to links to the rest of my "digital footprint". Of course, the Mayfair Witches is a category all its own. There is a category for my Digital Dollhouse Creations. The top section has the rest, and it is where you will find the link to my other website. It is small, and like the blog posts here that are archival since I moved them from the GoDaddy site's blog to this blog with their original dates, some of the site's content was migrated from the Original Parlor site.
Or I could move it all again--to this blog.
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