This is so thought-provoking. I do focus mostly on my website and Substack. I really downsized on my social media in the last year. I only post to BlueSky and IG now daily. But my book excerpts, photos, art, etc all go to my website and Substack. I use Substack for my email newsletter so I have put a lot of focus into my presence here instead of social media. I have a bok release coming up later this year - we will see how it all pays off!
Whew, posting daily on BlueSky and IG still! How does that go these days? Legit curious, since I'm not on them at all. Do people click / find the link in bio / etc all that stuff?
BlueSky is good! I get some engagement there and follows, and have gotten a couple of Substack subscribers from over there. The writing community is lovely and it's nice to socialize there. IG is basically useless and I am pretty close to just deleting mine, honestly. No engagement or nothing. Not like I used to get. But that's Meta for you. I deleted my Facebook author page a couple of years ago because of the same issues. There's no point in putting effort in somewhere where no one sees you.
Exactly. It sucks to have walk away from accounts I've had for over a decade. But social media has changed so much since I first made those accounts. It's wild.
Oh man, I LOVED Twitter, too. I spent a lot of time there. I was sad to delete it and even more sad at what it's become. If it weren't for a few online friends, my mother, and a couple of groups I really like, Facebook would be on the chopping block too. I feel like online spaces that aren't under a tyrannical and selfish billionaire's whims are hard to find these days. It adds another complication to marketing online outside of a website, making websites more important now than ever before.
Thanks for the nudge! I keep putting off moving my storefront over to my website which is stupid, I'm an artist who has work to sell! Time to get those Hugamonsters ready for adoption 😂
This is so thought-provoking. I do focus mostly on my website and Substack. I really downsized on my social media in the last year. I only post to BlueSky and IG now daily. But my book excerpts, photos, art, etc all go to my website and Substack. I use Substack for my email newsletter so I have put a lot of focus into my presence here instead of social media. I have a bok release coming up later this year - we will see how it all pays off!
Whew, posting daily on BlueSky and IG still! How does that go these days? Legit curious, since I'm not on them at all. Do people click / find the link in bio / etc all that stuff?
BlueSky is good! I get some engagement there and follows, and have gotten a couple of Substack subscribers from over there. The writing community is lovely and it's nice to socialize there. IG is basically useless and I am pretty close to just deleting mine, honestly. No engagement or nothing. Not like I used to get. But that's Meta for you. I deleted my Facebook author page a couple of years ago because of the same issues. There's no point in putting effort in somewhere where no one sees you.
THATS the spirit. Yeah. The sun doesn’t shine on a dead planet haha. Better to just leave it be.
Exactly. It sucks to have walk away from accounts I've had for over a decade. But social media has changed so much since I first made those accounts. It's wild.
I was one of the first 3,000 people to sign up for Twitter in 2006. I LOVED it. Deleted my account a year or so ago.
Oh man, I LOVED Twitter, too. I spent a lot of time there. I was sad to delete it and even more sad at what it's become. If it weren't for a few online friends, my mother, and a couple of groups I really like, Facebook would be on the chopping block too. I feel like online spaces that aren't under a tyrannical and selfish billionaire's whims are hard to find these days. It adds another complication to marketing online outside of a website, making websites more important now than ever before.
Dynamite
Takes one to know one. Wait... what?
Thanks for the nudge! I keep putting off moving my storefront over to my website which is stupid, I'm an artist who has work to sell! Time to get those Hugamonsters ready for adoption 😂
Sell that work! Sorry to add something to your to-do list already this week haha