Sharing Without Social
I’ve been pondering this topic of sharing without social off and on for a while now. Maybe even off and on for a couple of years. I enjoy sharing the food our house consumes, my artwork, and other fun photographs I take. The rub is with social media. I don’t want all the toxicity of F-book nor do I want the constant scroll of videos you now get on the gram. Where does one go to share without the dopamine hits of thumbs and hearts? Without the flood of memes and other chain-letter modernization. Where does one go to share for the sake of conversation and discussion?
I’ve been taking a good hard ponder about blogging again, but do people still read blogs? I like Substack, but I’m already seeing it slip into the land of all the other socials with the addition of notes. It’s far too reminiscent of the bygone days of social. I will continue to write here for a while, but I’m also wandering back toward the blogs I used to write. The place that was mine, where conversations could happen and trolls were removed at my discretion.
I enjoy the share, but I need more than a pic and a few hashtags to soothe my creative soul. I’ve no interest in the video making and the pressures of posting for the algorithm. I don’t care about SEO. I just want to share my little corner of the universe with the ones that find interest in my art and soul. I guess I’m writing to say I’m pulling the plug on Insta, just as I did a couple of years ago on F-book. I’ll be posting here for a while, but I’ll also be dusting off my blogs and building a new space to share all the things. If you want to find me off of Substack I can be found at theporchpostsctipt.com and stacypetersen.com for now. I’m mulling over where I’ll be sharing artwork if I want to make it part of the Postscript, or if I want to give it its own space. Time will tell.
I’ve been taking a good hard ponder about blogging again, but do people still read blogs? I like Substack, but I’m already seeing it slip into the land of all the other socials with the addition of notes. It’s far too reminiscent of the bygone days of social. I will continue to write here for a while, but I’m also wandering back toward the blogs I used to write. The place that was mine, where conversations could happen and trolls were removed at my discretion.
I enjoy the share, but I need more than a pic and a few hashtags to soothe my creative soul. I’ve no interest in the video making and the pressures of posting for the algorithm. I don’t care about SEO. I just want to share my little corner of the universe with the ones that find interest in my art and soul. I guess I’m writing to say I’m pulling the plug on Insta, just as I did a couple of years ago on F-book. I’ll be posting here for a while, but I’ll also be dusting off my blogs and building a new space to share all the things. If you want to find me off of Substack I can be found at theporchpostsctipt.com and stacypetersen.com for now. I’m mulling over where I’ll be sharing artwork if I want to make it part of the Postscript, or if I want to give it its own space. Time will tell.
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