I'm thinking of deleting my social media accounts but maintain a few; mainly Google+, my blog of course, and LinkedIn. Well, I've got no choice but to maintain these 2 as the first one, it gives me the freedom to pen down my thoughts and records my recipes while the second one is mainly used for work purposes.
In fact, I've been thinking about deleting my FB and IG some time ago but never had the courage to do so simply because, I may need to access to my friend's contacts, lookout for great deals online or even promote whichever sideline business that I will run in the future.
I've noticed some pretty bad habits that I've developed ever since I started using smartphone. I recalled those days when I can only access to my Friendster using my computer desktop at home. How simple was that to just access anything got to do with internet from a stationary desktop? Besides, news feed is getting exhausting with people posting selfies, or whatever they are doing, literally, online, with the intention to evoke jealousy, or admiration maybe? I'm definitely guilty of uploading selfies of myself and sometimes, photos of those moments that I thought is necessary to be shared. And soon after, I will get addicted to checking if my post had received any likes or comments.
Geez,
such a pyscho act right?
In fact, I didn't used to be a social media addict. I guess everyone started off the same. It was merely those days, where we upload nice picture of ourselves to make new friends (
ehem!) online and then, Mark Zuckenberg decided to change the world. You could do more than just uploading photos! Poking (
seriously hate this!), messaging, posting anything that you are feeling now, check-in to your location and advertisements from various business setups even started to flood the news feed. And then there was Instagram. Initially, I had used it to edit photos with nice filters and manually upload it to FB. I had few request who wanted to follow my account in IG which I ignored until one day, a friend asked me
"Hey, can you please accept my friend request?" And
BOOM! that's where the addiction started. You could link IG to FB for a seamless upload.
Cheesy huh!
Wow, this post is getting longer than I had expected. I still have more to share.
I discovered Facebook marketing 2 years back when I tried to sell perfumes and cosmetics. It was fun getting likes on the post you share, or likes to your page. It was even fun with the job title you can create for yourself, making yourself feel like a "Big Boss" and having a notification that someone enquired about your products. Truth be told, everyone dreams to be a big boss, but only a few succeed. I wasn't one of the few but I had my share and experience of earning my own income. That further motivates me to try out other things.
So while I'm contemplating to delete my FB and IG accounts, my tailoring sideline is slowly picking up. Soon, I will need to use either a FB or IG account to promote my services. So how do I decide if I should totally be out of these? Pfft!
Leah A A
