By Lisa M. Knapp



Maintaining a healthy balance of entertainment, media, and other activities in your life is an important challenge as we all know, and with the internet, blackberries and iPhones, life has now become more of a challenge. Time spent needs to be screened because if it is not, you will never have time for the more important things in life as an artist. It has actually been proven that time spent on the internet has increased over the years, just as the internet has. Its one thing to take advantage of the internet as an avenue to expand your network, and it’s another thing to over spend time networking…



It’s true that spending time on the World Wide Web can be one of those things that take over your life. There are so many places you can take advantage of to expand your audience and not enough time in a day to take care of everything. I was speaking to Gilson Lubin, one of Toronto’s faces of Comedy, but better known for his face on MTV when he was a host, who actually admitted that his problem is spending too much time on Facebook and that he needs to learn to let go so he can focus on his writing. This is a problem that many tend to run into.



It’s not uncommon to spend too much time on social networking avenues, people need to learn to cut themselves off. Set a timer to 15 minutes every other day and chat and update in the time permitted, then move on. So long as you regularly update, and keep in touch with your audience, your audience will continue to build. So limit yourself and find time for the more important things in life that you need to take care of other than your fans.

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