I feel embarrassed to admit this but I thought that when people starting following me on Instagram it was because they liked the content of my page. Foolish Me! I just didn’t know? Not that I have a big following but I would have 10 new followers one day and then in a few days most of them would be gone? I was confused? Some of them I followed back and others I wasn’t interested in their content.
I liked when someone started following me because I took this seriously. This is my business and I post my quotes and pictures of my life because social media is the way. It is the path! It offers the means to be seen and recognized especially if you have a business and don’t have a BRAND! There I said it. I DON’T HAVE A BRAND! So being “seen” and followed felt important.
When someone did follow me I would scroll through their info and look at their pictures, quotes, stories. I take my time wanting to know who these people are. What do they do? How are we connected? Intellectually? Vibrationally? Energetically? Philosophies? Then I would decide if we were a match. If we weren’t then I wouldn’t follow them back. And that’s when it happened. They took my “following back” and deleted me. WTF! I was used!
I took this seriously! I am smart! I am wise! I am an intuitive! And yet it took me a few months on Instagram to realize what was happening. WOW! And I was shocked.
This is an attempt to be light hearted about how social media has shifted my perspective!
I took this seriously? Now I am hardened and wise to this secret. Well not so secret because I think I am in a minority of those who didn’t know or understand this. I told a friend when I realized what was going on and we had a good laugh over this. She said “Yeah, that’s what happens-quite matter of factly.” But she is a product of this era and age and I AM NOT!
I come from a time where this didn’t happen. HA! Of course it didn’t happen! I am a product of an era with no computers, smart phones, FB, Twitter, Instagram and all the other ways that people are pseudo-connected now.
This is not a blog post about “Oh the good old days’! Never! I love all this technology. I am fascinated by most of it and eager to learn all of it. Ot at least as much as I can.
I hope you find this as comical as I have now found this. I was shocked at first, then I went into feeling embarrassed at how naive I was and now I just find it funny!
So I will continue to look at who is following me, that is until I start reaching those thousands and thousands of followers and then I will not have the time or inclination to be so picky. Or maybe I should just start doing that now?
It doesn’t seem that important anymore!
