TikTok’sparent company, the Chinese-owned ByteDance, was directed to sell the app to anon-Chinese owner by January 19 or be banned in the U.S. AfterByteDance failed to meet the deadline, TikTok vanished for Americans.

Afterhis inauguration on Monday, Trump gave TikTok 75 days to seek a new solution. Theapp remains operational in the U.S. for the time being, but if TikTok candisappear so quickly, what’s to stop it from happening again?

Noone knows what’s next for any platform. The best advice is Diversify. Start aYouTube channel they say, Invest in Instagram Reels. Launch a Substack newsletter. 

Seemsa self-pubbed author needs to be or hire a PR expert these days . Also required is an intuitiveknowledge of how to use the new programs. I find it difficult to use the few platformsI do know and wish they were all as simple as Facebook.