What is satisfying about social media is the ability to constantly recreate ourselves. We can change the images in our profile, cultivate a certain persona, have it adjust with trends, we can curate who we are and our hobbies, and then redo/undo it almost just as immediately.
Do you ever catch yourself looking at your profile, something you’ve written, perhaps even your reflection, imagining you were looking through the eyes of someone else? Perhaps a particular person, thinking, “what do they see…of me?” When the underlying question we are really asking is “what do I want them to see of me?”
Social media also lets us do that, and it’s so brief and perhaps unconscious, but we look at ourselves at a distance, and get away with indulging in a kind of agency of creation that normally only artists get to do. How nice it is to see who I’ve created of myself so immediately, rather than waiting seventy years to live the life I’ve lived to see who I really am.
Twitter User: I wish I had more followers, then I’d be more likely to get verified.
Facebook User: I wish my posts reached further, then I’d get famous.
Instagram User: I wish I had more followers so I can unlock more basic features for my account.
TikTok User: I wish I had more views then I’d be a real influencer.
Tumbler User: I specifically didn’t tag this so no one would find it why does it have 200k notes? Who the hell are these people following me? All of you need to go away so I can go back to posting incomprehensible garbage and pictures of frogs.
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Oh no
Help
Here’s a picture of a blue poison dart frog.
WHY!?
Okay, lots of folks asking “INSTAGRAM DOES THAT!?”
And yes, it does:
Nice.
Kaeru the frog from Poco’s Udon World
Pain.
With the power of spite we can get this post to 200k specifically like OP wanted.
MINIMALIST SOCIAL MEDIA TEMPLATES: Instagram and Twitter
Below, you’ll find the links to download these 4 social media templates: an Instagram profile, an Instagram photo, a Twitter profile, and a tweet. You can see full-sized examples of these: here (Instagram profile and photos), here (Twitter profiles), and here (tweets). These are a minimalist approach to the way these sites actually look and lack some of the more tedious aspects (number of posts, dates). Each template has the dimensions for each photo listed and they all come with an optional ‘verified’ tick (exception: the Instagram photo, as Instagram doesn’t show verification on individual photos). As per usual, please like or reblog if you download these.
vedo svariata gente con millemila note sui post e poi la metà sono i loro stessi reblog, sarà che sbaglio io totalmente nel gestire un social come tumblr?
I love fitness blogger Sarah Puhto for posting these photos and for the honest words she put underneath. She wrote:
Body image Recently I’ve been thinking with a really negative mindset, I’m going to Singapore in 8 days and I had a whole month workout plan for how I’m gonna tone up and look super amazing. The reason why I wanted to do this is cause I’m going to see a lot of people who I went to high school with, who also follow me on here (hi hello how are you guys ) and I wanted to look good cause I sadly had this negative thought that some people would think something like “why does she look like that, I thought she works out like everyday? Where her abs at??” because I had gained quite a bit of fat while I was in South Africa from eating lots of junk food. Also I’m scared that people will think I look exactly like I look on my posed/flexed photos on my Instagram, which I really don’t. But because I’ve been sick the past week I haven’t been able to stick to that workout plan and haven’t even worked out for a whole week now which made me feel like I look less toned. I realised that this whole plan and mindset was so horribly silly. I shouldn’t care at all what other people think of my body because I’ve worked so hard to get into this positive mindset of loving my body and not caring what others think. It goes to show how I still do sometimes end up thinking in a very negative way and that I am not always positive and do care how people see me sometimes, because I am only human. I’m just glad I caught myself thinking like this and got myself out of this negative mindset. So here’s a photo of me on the left posing, sucking in and doing a fab booty pop vs how I look just normally standing with everything relaxed cause that’s what I look like in real life! What I’m trying to say is you shouldn’t stress about other people’s opinions of your body because at the end of the day it is your body and the only opinion that should matter about it is yours. ☺️ Hope you all have an absolutely lovely #humpday
Webinar Weekend: The Author’s Web Toolkit. Learn how to make an author website (even if you’re not a coder) & best practices for a social media presence.
I’ve teamed up with my fellow Debut22 author Lisa Stringfellow to bring you two webinars for writers, pre- and post-published. We both feel strongly that authors should have a web presence, even a basic one. We’ll give you the tools to create and maintain a website and a social media presence even if you aren’t tech-savvy or trained in digital marketing. Join us for: Build It Better: Essentials…
Hey everyone, I’m getting tired of dealing with the current platforms offered by facebook, google, twitter, etc. Facebook especially has gotten terrible in terms of navigation.
The quality of things in general just seems to be taking such a dive lately. Plus, they are starting to cross the line when it comes to copyright. Youtube now lets you straight up download people’s videos or place advertisements without even paying the creators. It’s insanity!
Anyway, I’m planning on moving everything to my own server and having my own place to share content with you all.
I realize it’s fun to have a place to like or comment on things, or see how many views something is getting but the price to pay for that little bit of social buzz has gotten to steep for me. All I want is a place you can quickly get access to A9 content. My server can handle the little bit of bandwidth needed for the size of our community. And if it grows, I’ll just get a bigger server.
My hope is to be done with this transition by end of 2021. So expect to see some of A9’s existing social media pages turning into ghost towns. And expect to see www.A9rig.com turn into a colorful little hub of content that will be easy to navigate (what a concept!).
It’s time to take back control over our content! Farewell social media giants. You got rich off of content creators like myself and instead of reciprocating you got more evil and more greedy. I’m done.
Psiphon’s new paper cut-out poster campaign spreads internet censorship awareness. Their VPN service helps people from all around the world regain access to blocked sites.
karl urban: Throwing it back to 02/10/15 on location in Dubai or Star Trek Beyond. Fun adventures in the desert …Pine broke the axle on his dune buggy & my son was terrified
