Is social media bad? Seems to be the current question,doesn’t it? As an artist/maker when I started selling online in 2008 things were different.My FaceBook business page was immensely useful for building and audience and there were soon apps to essentially import my whole product line over.This was true with Etsy and also when I moved to Big Cartel.These are gone (you can set up a FB shop now) and my content isn’t delivered to the people who have ASKED to be in the loop…unless I pay.Even paying hasn’t worked for me.That is business.I suppose I just don’t have the kind of funds it takes and I am longing for the days when it was organic and I worked to create relationships with customers.I am a dinosaur.
The “personal” FB side has become so full of arguments and outright hate that I have had to deactivate my account even though there are many people that are wonderful.I sometimes find it hard to not get sucked into a discussion especially when facts are wrong.We live in a “don’t bother me with facts ” society now.
I am all for discourse,even heated discourse but it is just name calling and ugly.
And ah…Twitter…
I loved when it when it was 140 characters,no photos (unless you linked out). What a challenge that was.People wrote Haiku. They really did.It all happened in real time…the Arab Spring,etc.
I talk with other artists and makers on Instagram,and it has been much better.Yes,I know who owns it and I don’t know what the future will hold .Ello.co is another good place for creatives ,but watch for the porn crap accounts.
And more blogging….yeah,yeah,I’ve said that before.
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