2.) I post on Dribbble for pretty much everything that isn't a Ground Up snippet. Every Saturday Type Club, every logo, every badge, and every ICON.
3.) I really don't engage with people well on social media platforms. I post and ghost. Meaning we likely won't interact much. A better way to get in touch with me is through my
email4.) We both know how bad Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok can be. Why post on platforms we don't believe in?
5.) We make the content that makes these platforms a viable business model. What if we built things elsewhere?
6.) Instagram is wack. Right? We all, to some degree have to feel that, at least a little.
7.) I think we all whiffed it when we agreed to allowing these platforms to have this much influence over how we think, create, and connect. So I'm pouring my efforts into other avenues ones that seem to help more than they hurt.
8.) The stuff I make doesn't do well on Instagram. I don't make videos, or super engaging posts, so there's a real chance you'd never see it anyways.
9.) You'd get distracted, or outraged, or fixated on something else. That's what Instagram is designed to do.
10.) By not following me, you're proving that creators, artists, and organizations don't need social media to be successful or connected.
Great question. One that I'm still trying to answer. But here's my best thinking as of now.
I think that in some ways social media platforms can be helpful. They can help you grow an audience, they can help us stay in touch. They can help us so some incredible things. But what they most often do is at best unhelpful, and at worst really damaging. I'm slowly becoming convinced that for what I'm building the good just isn't worth the bad.