Social Media Escape Club
Threads is adding view counts. This is probably a good place to put that my Threads referral traffic has completely cratered, as I knew it would. The decision to show view counts is, I assume, part of the typical Meta tactic to get people to care more about on-site engagement that any kind of real traffic.
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this week, if you have time to do one extra thing, I suggest connecting with someone in a way that counts. It doesn’t have to be big, or take a lot of time.
Cat Ferguson • https://sf.gazetteer.co/those-weird-spam-texts-are...
“If you only exist in the minds of your consumers as an Instagram handle, you haven’t built a brand. You’ve built an account,” Jamie R Cox
https://brandburnout.substack.com/p/am-i-the-girl-who-deleted-instagram
BRING BACK BLOGS, a Tweet from Chuck Wendig from 2020
the most courageous, life-affirming choice you can make is to break free from mimetic expectations around growth, and choose to define enough for yourself, and actually enjoy it once you get there. That's the ultimate gangster move.
rob hardy 🦌 • Non-Coercive Marketing: A Manifesto
Amelia asked me what I am orienting to in my practice and everything in my body said I was turning toward other things, none of it included Instagram. And saying out loud - I don’t feel good there is what sparked my exit.
Off The Grid
Gen Z Broke The Marketing Funnel
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/consumers/gen-z-broke-the-marketing-funnel
many of us are addicted and don’t even come to the internet for joy, knowledge or connection anymore— we just do it because we are 100% wired into the machine and can’t break the cycle.
