Hello there! I’ve been on various social media platforms for over a decade. In this post, I share my thoughts on why it’s good to clean up your virtual world.
As an introvert, I prefer to interact with people in small groups. It was time to apply this philosophy to my virtual world.
Ever since I start my first blog (2006…yikes!), I’d post regularly for a while, then my job would get very busy and I’d settle into random posting. Posting every day, week, or even month simply doesn’t work for me. I choose to post when I have something to say and accept this method works against me with all the social media platform algorithms. My sporadic posting is why I’ve changed this site to a Subscriber system so my community is notified when I publish a new article.
I’ve been on LinkedIn for over a decade. In that time, I’ve had 2 arts and crafts blogs and 2 office professional blogs and closed 2 of them. I’ve always shared my posts to LinkedIn. I’ve also been pretty loose about accepting connection invites, doing a minimum of vetting.
This laxity has resulted in two things: 1) my very old posts have dead links and 2) I accepted connections to people I don’t actually know.
This week, I pruned the dead posts and removed connections to people I don’t interact with. My profile looks much more organized and professional with some artistic flair, which is how I want to present myself.
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
I’ve applied this to my other personal social media accounts as well. There has to be a genuine connection with them.
I also hadn’t looked at my Facebook groups and pages in a very long time. I found that most are related to interests I no longer pursue or I interact with those groups on other sites. The ads are bad enough, but being connected to pages I’m not interested in clogs up my feed and pushes aside the people I want to interact with.
Time for a virtual de-clutter?
I highly recommend going Marie Kondo on your social media accounts. Focus on the people, groups and pages that bring you joy today.
It felt so good to unsubscribe, unfollow and disconnect from the people and resources that no longer resonate for me.
People change. It’s ok. Give it a try. If these people, groups and pages are meant to be in your orbit, they’ll circle back.
It’ll be just fine.