I walked away from a facebook page for my therapy business with 132k followers. It’s so nice and liberating and quiet. How I actually want my life to be. I read something recently that our businesses aren’t on meta to make our businesses successful, they’re on meta to make meta successful. Today I’m starting planning some promo material to swap with the business around me, in person.
Wow. 136K followers, which cost you so much work over years. This is brave but also, I understand and appreciate the sense of liberation you talk about. In the same time, this shows something crucial: Instagram owns your contacts, not you. If you quit, you cannot take them with you. In Substack instead, you own your audience. I wrote a short piece to explain this: https://open.substack.com/pub/4two/p/how-to-own-your-audience
thank you for all you've shared on ig! i found your account in 2016 and it helped set me on a path toward becoming an archivist. so now that i am an archivist (lol), i'm wondering - will you preserve your account and/or the images & text? (fwiw - i don't think you should feel obligated to do so! just curious.)
omg, that's incredible! i'm not deleting the account. i've always argued social media is fleeting - i never saw it as an actually lasting archive (you'd know more about that than me). i'll keep it up for the memories. i actually did a 7min tiktok walking down herstory IG memory lane yesterday :)
Wow, congratulations on walking out of such a number of followers!! I really admire your courage, I don't dare to leave it just yet but I want this to be the year. The people from there who wants to come along to my newsletter are more than welcome. I wrote this piece on how IG affected my field of industry, which is painting. Just if you feel like reading it :)
I just quit all other socials but IG this weekend. God knows I’d love to quit Instagram, but it’s still where my customers come from. But I am so sick of feeding that machine
I bet you could find customers through other means, too. I understand, it's a wire to balance. I feel similar to LinkedIn, if I look back on where I found actually work - it's LI through networking. Unfortch.
bravo! with herstory and personals both you really created magic. and that platform just isn’t conducive to magic anymore. but ✨you✨ are. thank you for sharing all the things!
I walked away from a facebook page for my therapy business with 132k followers. It’s so nice and liberating and quiet. How I actually want my life to be. I read something recently that our businesses aren’t on meta to make our businesses successful, they’re on meta to make meta successful. Today I’m starting planning some promo material to swap with the business around me, in person.
Yes, agree - 'on meta to make meta successful'. Bravo to you to walking away. Was there a 'last straw'? Enjoy your day outside and working :)
Wow. 136K followers, which cost you so much work over years. This is brave but also, I understand and appreciate the sense of liberation you talk about. In the same time, this shows something crucial: Instagram owns your contacts, not you. If you quit, you cannot take them with you. In Substack instead, you own your audience. I wrote a short piece to explain this: https://open.substack.com/pub/4two/p/how-to-own-your-audience
thank you for all you've shared on ig! i found your account in 2016 and it helped set me on a path toward becoming an archivist. so now that i am an archivist (lol), i'm wondering - will you preserve your account and/or the images & text? (fwiw - i don't think you should feel obligated to do so! just curious.)
omg, that's incredible! i'm not deleting the account. i've always argued social media is fleeting - i never saw it as an actually lasting archive (you'd know more about that than me). i'll keep it up for the memories. i actually did a 7min tiktok walking down herstory IG memory lane yesterday :)
aw yay! just watched the tiktok, love it -- and glad you’re leaving the account available in the ephemeral ig realm <3
Wow, congratulations on walking out of such a number of followers!! I really admire your courage, I don't dare to leave it just yet but I want this to be the year. The people from there who wants to come along to my newsletter are more than welcome. I wrote this piece on how IG affected my field of industry, which is painting. Just if you feel like reading it :)
https://open.substack.com/pub/marinarocade/p/instagram-changed-contemporary-painting?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=9218i
I just quit all other socials but IG this weekend. God knows I’d love to quit Instagram, but it’s still where my customers come from. But I am so sick of feeding that machine
I bet you could find customers through other means, too. I understand, it's a wire to balance. I feel similar to LinkedIn, if I look back on where I found actually work - it's LI through networking. Unfortch.
Thank you for creating a marvelous account!
You're very welcome
👏 👏 👏 Inspiring. Looking forward to when I can do the same.
Congrats!
Yesss! This is encouraging! Go you!
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Congratulations!
thanks it feels good to make a decision
bravo! with herstory and personals both you really created magic. and that platform just isn’t conducive to magic anymore. but ✨you✨ are. thank you for sharing all the things!
thank you lindsey! you're so kind to say this, i needed to hear it. platforms can mess with your mind!
Also did this with over 100k followers recently. The cons do end up outweighing the pros for many of us.
I feel free
You did it.
I love it
Thanks Cody!! We were IG buds back in the day
❤️🔥❤️🔥 I love this. Thank you for sharing - pumped to have you as a Sub bud now 😝