Why social media sucks for bloggers and content producers

Social media can seriously suck if you're a blogger or content producer. Why? Because it's not fun anymore.

Why social media sucks

When you're a blogger or content producer of any kind, social media can really suck. It's work and it's seriously unfun. It's supposed to be fun right? I think it was at one point, before it became a chore. I assume it's fun for the rest of humanity that don't spend their time creating content and curating on social media. Was it ever fun? I'm going to say yes, otherwise why would everyone use it so much? 

10 reasons social media sucks for bloggers and content producers

1. It's work now, even when you love your job, there are still things that are just a chore and for bloggers, social media is definitely one of them
2. We don't follow who we actually want to follow, instead we follow:
• Other bloggers we need to network with
• Companies we need to network with
• Pages we can share content from to improve our engagement rate and boost visibility
3. Our feeds are so clogged with work crap we don't see our friends updates
4. Our feeds are so clogged with work crap we don't see new cat videos
5. We don't just choose what platform our friends are on
6. We choose every single platform even though we know we should be just optimising one
7. We flit between networks trying to build our following on all platforms
8. We don't usually post personal posts or share content we have a real passion for, like the latest Bernie meme because we're scared we'll lose followers, actually scratch that, if you're a Trump supporter I'm more than happy to lose you, in fact I will make it a request, Hillary's stay put
9. While we want to like our blogger pals posts to help them out and boost their visibility, we don't want to alienate our friends by filling their feeds with our blogging stuff
10. We feel so much pressure to stay relevant on every platform that we either post all the time (when we could be doing something more productive) or instead we know we can't possibly keep up so post practically never, promise ourselves we'll try harder next month, never do and feel super guilty about it

How to make social media NOT suck if you're a blogger

I'm completely sick of how much social media is sucking right now. I want to get my engagement back all the while getting my mojo back as a blogger, boosting my visibility and making social media fun again! 

So in the coming weeks, let's say months so that I can stick to my goals, I'll be writing a series of posts on how to make your different social media platforms fun again, whether you're a blogger, content producer, writer, social media marketer, whatever.

I hope you'll tag along and learn how to make your social media fun again too, while increasing your engagement rate. Before we begin though, these will not be posts about how to get more followers on social media. That might happen but it will take a lot longer than the methods you're used to, that I'm used to. The posts will not be about followers and vanity metrics but about making social media be fun again, as if it was never a chore. 

Get back to the basics and enjoy social media again with me!

Here's my first post of the series:
How to Make Instagram Fun Again for Bloggers