Where Is My Social Network?
Lately, I’ve wanted to get more into social media. I have this itch every once in awhile, and then it dies off after a few days.
This time, it started with posting a video of my uncle at a Cowboy Action Shooting match last weekend.
It was fun to post it on Facebook and Instagram and have people like it. I suppose that’s a psychological thing. Positive feedback or something.
Every now and then, I try to take a step back and reconsider the major social media networks. I don’t know what I’m looking for. Maybe that one of these days I’ll discover that I fit into one.
I already know how to use them from a marketing standpoint, for my brands and clients. But I just don’t fit into them personally.
I had a lot of success on Twitter promoting Smart Website Marketing through my “personal brand” (whatever that means), and grew a lot of followers there.
I feel like it’s very push based though, and most of the people who are following me are all about the marketing stuff. I plan to go back to it later when I want to restart SWM.
But Twitter is so limited. Only 150 characters or whatever, and I just don’t feel like the audience is right.
Then there’s Facebook, but it’s just friends and family. Which I guess is fine, but doesn’t allow for outside people to find me and to grow it as a branding platform or whatever.
Although, I don’t really know what I want out of this. If it was branding, I should just go back to Twitter.
Instagram is pretty fun, but requires good pictures. I’m neither a girl nor very attractive, so I’m already at a disadvantage. Plus now working from home at an apartment doesn’t give lots of opportunities for cool pictures.
I mean, I could probably grow it by just liking a ton of random pictures, but what would be the point?
Google+
Then Google+ is dead, no one I know uses it, and all the communities seem very promotional. Case closed.
Then LinkedIn is just for finding jobs.
Snapchat
Snapchat is dumb because things disappear, and again, is very picture based. I could do the stories thing, but what’s the point of building anything that’s not permanent. I feel like the only people who can be successful there are celebrities.
I mean, I could also use it for communication with friends/family. But for that I’d rather just text so that I can go see the pictures again later.
Tumblr
Tumblr is kind of a cool mesh of a bunch of things, but I feel like the community is very young and very small.
Just poking around today it seems like a good handful of the blogs I would want to follow are dead.
There doesn’t seem to be a lot of room for growth. Also, posts that do well seem to be gifs, which I don’t really care to make.
Conclusion?
So I guess the real question is what is this all about? I’ll need to use all the networks once I restart Course for a Cause, whenever that happens. Speaking of which, I don’t know why I haven’t worked on that. I just feel stuck writing reviews. Maybe I just need to find a way to make it more interesting to write those. I think it could be a good source of income, if I could just make myself do the work.
So if I wanted branding, I would do Twitter. But I don’t really care about that. So that kind of leaves Facebook/Instagram. Instagram is just so picture based I feel like I couldn’t ever do well.
Everyone is on Facebook. So maybe I just need to start friending a lot more people so that I don’t see as many dumb posts, and start interacting more.
Problem with Facebook is that it’s the opposite of anonymous. So if I wanted to post something like this, or something controversial, it would not go over well. Everyone knows who I am. Where on Tumblr, I have my multiple blogs that are basically anonymous.
Hmm, I dunno. This social media bug will probably dissipate within a few days anyway, like it always does.