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I've always had a bad relationship with social media. I understand why people love them, though: if used consciously, they can be interesting or entertaining. It's when I see professionals using social media platforms as the only channels to share their work that I raise my eyebrows. People in creative fields, especially, have completely abandoned personal platforms in favour of micro-blogging ones, which I find absurd. I understand the need to reach as wide an audience as possible; it's the same reason I'm still on social platforms owned by big tech companies, at least for now. What I don't get is how anyone can think that putting their work exclusively on platforms where they have no control is a good idea. "Keeping a blog costs too much time," they'd tell me, and it's true. Then they spend two hours a day scrolling a feed chosen by an algorithm, and I feel sick. Then again, I see them struggling to keep up with the latest trends and various upgrades (or downgrades, depending on your point of view), complaining about the time they waste. I don't think time is the issue here. Stories! You're nobody if you don't post six thousand stories a day! Reels! You have to make super cool reels…
