I am so Tired of Social Media

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Since a longer time I interact less and less with social media. I think it started 2018 or so, that I thought it wasn’t feeling the same. As someone who was (is) dependent on social media channels, organising events and selling most tickets through Twitter in the past and as a multiplier to spread the word about my events in general, I still hung out there. Like many other people have written in the past months, it also was a channel where I kept in touch with many people I met during 20+ years of attending and running events.

Already before the pandemic, social media and specifically Twitter, but also Facebook and Instagram, felt different to me. Somehow the pandemic was a booster for those changes as it feels. The death of Twitter and the changes now, through that clown being elected again caused the “old” users to look for something new. Sadly that resulted not in one, but various platforms. Social media is so fragmented these days, that it felt hard to keep up.

  • “Do I re-post everything I post on one platform to the others?”
  • “Do I use each of the channels for a slightly different purpose? If so, which one?”
  • …

Many questions how to deal with all those platforms popped up and I am confused to the day. Less about what I, as Marc Thiele post there or how to use it, but for my business, running events. I need to get the word out, but will people eventually get annoyed that follow me on multiple platforms? I mean, it is kind of advertising many of us do on those channels.

I could really write for hours on here, but actually I only wanted to say one thing, when I started this RSS Club post:

I am SO tired! The tough years after Covid are one thing, but social media adds to it and so I stopped reading any of it mostly these days. I open it, post my beyond tellerrand announcements and leave again. I can’t read most of it. It is tiring, depressing and sadly – like in many other media – often negative.

I want to focus on the positive. For months I have one tab opened in my browser holding a blog post by Kev Quirk titled “Things That Make Me Happy”.

That is what I want to do more again: make people happy. Inspire them positively.

Will you help me?