If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

What social-media really becomes after years of use is a constant stream of information both verbal and visual that at first drenches the mind, quenching its thirst for knowledge, and subduing its curiosity slowly but surly transforms into a torrent that renders the brain heavy and the mind restless.

I'm a social media addict.

The answer to the question how to use Social Media lies in the name itself - being social; listen and respond; humanize the brand