Thanks so much for sharing a simple, not overwhelming example for how to use social media! I appreciate you encouraging us to take care of ourselves while using social media. It can be way too much at times.
Oh I hear you. I’ve felt a lot calmer and more centred since deleting insta. I wouldn’t have got through last week at work if I had it I don’t think it’s been so mad! I’ve broken lots of my own rules 😆
This sounds wonderful, but I'm so busy 😂 I'm really struggling with IG right now. I love what the platform could be for me, but I feel so trapped by the algorithms. I'm doing all the "right" things for authentic engagement but nothing is working to convert 🤷🏼♀️ What's your YouTube channel?
Thanks Claire. I have recently moved my newsletter from LinkedIn and am loving the energy! I am slightly daunted at building up my audience again, but excited too. I’ll still post on LinkedIn, but more signposting.
I really enjoy using Instagram but am limiting my time there at the moment and creating more space for personal stories over business content. It’s the season I’m in so I’m rolling with it! And hoping it doesn’t completely undo years of connection. I trust that people are interested in all of me...not just branding 🙂
Also, thank you SO much for recommending my Substack. Just spotted that and felt very glowy after your wee write up 💛
Words fail me a little reading this and then through all the conversation (and it is an actual proper, beautiful conversation, not just a set of responses..) that echos so much my own thoughts. I’ve tried strategies with social posts but each time I lose track and don’t keep up, I berate myself for being a failure - so I’m not trying any strategy and trying to not let the slow deterioration of followers not bother me.. it’s work in progress. I can’t begin to describe how at home I feel being in this space on substack having beautiful conversations 💛
What I find frustrating about Instagram is that people will follow you and not ‘like’ the posts/stories and then if you don’t follow them back they will ‘unfollow’, this messes with my head and I am constantly checking to see if I have new followers and why some people have way more followers than me! It’s not good for my mental health and as per Tamzin’s advice I may take a summer break and come back fresh in September. Great thread btw Claire, you have started a fantastic conversation here. 💜🙏
I always love your authenticity here, Claire. I had a realization the other day about my Instagram usage and how it's really not serving me. Ever since getting back from our trip, I've been mindlessly scrolling a ton and have noticed that I feel more confused/disheartened by my own work and ideas than ever. I definitely think it's because I'm seeing so many ideas and content online that I can't take in my own, and I make everyone else's my own. I never thought I was 'easily influenced' but I'm coming to accept that I am, and that's a hard pill to swallow. I still want to find a way to use Instagram going forward, but definitely re-evaluating where I'm at. Thankfully Substack has been nothing but positive inspiration for me, I think the long posts give us more of a story behind the person and you can't do the scrolling you do on Instagram or TikTok. Makes me more grateful for Substack than I thought!
Anyway, thanks for bringing this conversation forward and sharing your thoughts on it all.
I'll throw my 2 cents in here: I've found Substack to stand out from all other social media. I've been active in the past on Facebook especially (had a pretty big following for a while), and the quality of a couple hundred connections here is just so much more meaningful than a few thousand over there.
Plus: this place isn't toxic, and I plan to help keep it that way. It's a safe place for folks to have thoughtful dialogue, which is probably the one thing the world needs more than anything else right now.
Try having a deep, meaningful conversation, in public, on TikTok, YouTube, or Facebook. Let me know how that goes for you.
I've been trying your strategy of posting once a week and deleting the app. It is working wonders! I definitely have connections there who have no interest in Substack. But this way it is not an ongoing energetic drain. Weirdly I am getting the same engagement in one day than I used to over the course of a week. 🤷
I am probably not doing enough on social media... Beyond posting on LinkedIn (where I get decent impressions but zero comments and likes) and sometimes on twitter. I guess I’m just not as concerned about it?
Ah social media and its ebbs and flows. One day you are "winning" loving it and see ALL the advantages for your business and the next you want to bury your head in the sand and delete the whole thing. Breaks are definitely good. I also need to rethink how I use it with my kids in mind. C is at an age now where he is aware of it all, he doesn't like his photo being taken and before I know it he will be using it too. So thinking about how to educate him as well... it just changes all the time doesn't it?
I feel so strange about social media these days. The only one I ever actively posted on was Instagram, but it didn't bring me much, even if I had learnt all of the tricks and how to please the algorithm. But I deleted it from my phone a few months ago, and I just don't miss it in the slightest. I really feel though that I should get back in the game, that I should I should I should. But honestly, I couldn't be bothered!
I am consciously uncoupling from social media, that is my strategy. Do far less. I find it to be mainly white noise. It is working as I feel much calmer and more grounded. X
Thanks so much for sharing a simple, not overwhelming example for how to use social media! I appreciate you encouraging us to take care of ourselves while using social media. It can be way too much at times.
Oh I hear you. I’ve felt a lot calmer and more centred since deleting insta. I wouldn’t have got through last week at work if I had it I don’t think it’s been so mad! I’ve broken lots of my own rules 😆
It’s here - https://youtube.com/@creativelyconsciousUK
I’m very new there Sarah! 🙈
This sounds wonderful, but I'm so busy 😂 I'm really struggling with IG right now. I love what the platform could be for me, but I feel so trapped by the algorithms. I'm doing all the "right" things for authentic engagement but nothing is working to convert 🤷🏼♀️ What's your YouTube channel?
Thanks Claire. I have recently moved my newsletter from LinkedIn and am loving the energy! I am slightly daunted at building up my audience again, but excited too. I’ll still post on LinkedIn, but more signposting.
I really enjoy using Instagram but am limiting my time there at the moment and creating more space for personal stories over business content. It’s the season I’m in so I’m rolling with it! And hoping it doesn’t completely undo years of connection. I trust that people are interested in all of me...not just branding 🙂
Also, thank you SO much for recommending my Substack. Just spotted that and felt very glowy after your wee write up 💛
Words fail me a little reading this and then through all the conversation (and it is an actual proper, beautiful conversation, not just a set of responses..) that echos so much my own thoughts. I’ve tried strategies with social posts but each time I lose track and don’t keep up, I berate myself for being a failure - so I’m not trying any strategy and trying to not let the slow deterioration of followers not bother me.. it’s work in progress. I can’t begin to describe how at home I feel being in this space on substack having beautiful conversations 💛
What I find frustrating about Instagram is that people will follow you and not ‘like’ the posts/stories and then if you don’t follow them back they will ‘unfollow’, this messes with my head and I am constantly checking to see if I have new followers and why some people have way more followers than me! It’s not good for my mental health and as per Tamzin’s advice I may take a summer break and come back fresh in September. Great thread btw Claire, you have started a fantastic conversation here. 💜🙏
I always love your authenticity here, Claire. I had a realization the other day about my Instagram usage and how it's really not serving me. Ever since getting back from our trip, I've been mindlessly scrolling a ton and have noticed that I feel more confused/disheartened by my own work and ideas than ever. I definitely think it's because I'm seeing so many ideas and content online that I can't take in my own, and I make everyone else's my own. I never thought I was 'easily influenced' but I'm coming to accept that I am, and that's a hard pill to swallow. I still want to find a way to use Instagram going forward, but definitely re-evaluating where I'm at. Thankfully Substack has been nothing but positive inspiration for me, I think the long posts give us more of a story behind the person and you can't do the scrolling you do on Instagram or TikTok. Makes me more grateful for Substack than I thought!
Anyway, thanks for bringing this conversation forward and sharing your thoughts on it all.
I'll throw my 2 cents in here: I've found Substack to stand out from all other social media. I've been active in the past on Facebook especially (had a pretty big following for a while), and the quality of a couple hundred connections here is just so much more meaningful than a few thousand over there.
Plus: this place isn't toxic, and I plan to help keep it that way. It's a safe place for folks to have thoughtful dialogue, which is probably the one thing the world needs more than anything else right now.
Try having a deep, meaningful conversation, in public, on TikTok, YouTube, or Facebook. Let me know how that goes for you.
I've been trying your strategy of posting once a week and deleting the app. It is working wonders! I definitely have connections there who have no interest in Substack. But this way it is not an ongoing energetic drain. Weirdly I am getting the same engagement in one day than I used to over the course of a week. 🤷
Oh, I just noticed my post at the end. I wondered where the new comments and notes were coming from! Thank you. 🥰
Did you ever do Periscope? It was kind of like Instagram Live before Instagram Live.
I am probably not doing enough on social media... Beyond posting on LinkedIn (where I get decent impressions but zero comments and likes) and sometimes on twitter. I guess I’m just not as concerned about it?
Ah social media and its ebbs and flows. One day you are "winning" loving it and see ALL the advantages for your business and the next you want to bury your head in the sand and delete the whole thing. Breaks are definitely good. I also need to rethink how I use it with my kids in mind. C is at an age now where he is aware of it all, he doesn't like his photo being taken and before I know it he will be using it too. So thinking about how to educate him as well... it just changes all the time doesn't it?
I feel so strange about social media these days. The only one I ever actively posted on was Instagram, but it didn't bring me much, even if I had learnt all of the tricks and how to please the algorithm. But I deleted it from my phone a few months ago, and I just don't miss it in the slightest. I really feel though that I should get back in the game, that I should I should I should. But honestly, I couldn't be bothered!
I am consciously uncoupling from social media, that is my strategy. Do far less. I find it to be mainly white noise. It is working as I feel much calmer and more grounded. X