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Novaheart's avatar

Social Media has definitely become an annoyance to me. I go on Instagram for comedy and cat videos not political posts, doom, gloom and curated fake lives. I go on tik tok for fellow writers and artists and again I get the scary stuff, so fine I will dust off Facebook, but its more of the same. Even the stack as I call it, is getting some b.s. but less than others.

I go on social media to have a laugh, see adorable cats, or support other artists instead I am told the world is on fire, I see women selling their bodies for money, I have men offering me money for mine... and I see animal torture, genocide, bombs, inequality, and a bleak future for us all. Thank God for ASMR and YouTube a relaxing space, and of course the stack my creative outlet with some cool people

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Mata Haggis-Burridge's avatar

Social media is weird.

I came to the conclusion about 15 years ago that the only people profiting from online advertising were the advertising syndicates (notably Google) but it took me much longer to reach the same feeling about social media.

As you say, there's some value in 'having a network', but if it's not in the tens/hundreds of thousands then I wonder how much? And what part of me would I sell to reach those figures?

So, I guess we have to try to ignore the numbers and do what we like, hoping a fluke will turn this into some weirdly authentic success story.

Good luck to you, and us!

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