For some time now, we here at Orson’s have considered deleting our accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, leaving social media altogether. The reasoning has been simple: it can be a dangerous place on which to focus our energy.

That reasoning holds true today. Where we want to focus our energy is on our catalog of books, on forthcoming issues of Orson’s Review, and on the Orson’s Publishing bookstore—the core of Orson’s Publishing.

Supporters of social media could read that and suggest...