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Hi, I’m Victor, Welcome here 👋. I’ve had an account with Medium for over 3 years but nothing quite inspired me to put words together in writing, even reading others’ articles have really never been appealing — not until recently.
What inspired me? We’d talk about that another day. For now, let’s say I think I’m going to do this more. I’d appreciate a few claps at the end of this article and one or two comments right.
So, I’m a considerably experienced guy in digital marketing. By means of selling my market, I do Digital and brand strategy, website development, SEO, social media optimization, content strategy, email marketing. Boy! I’ve been through virtually all fields known to a digital marketer. 🌚
So you’d expect that my typical day would include a couple of things — but keeping tabs on social media platforms importantly yes? You’re right. My job requires that I spend a sizable amount of my 24 hour day online, engaging social communities, creating content, following trends, etc.
I took a break. I went off for 2 weeks.
Now, let’s take some steps back. I’m the custodian of my company’s social media pages and I obviously could not tell my bosses at work that I was taking a sabbatical leave from social media, hey! God no go allow us do ourselves. 😂
My personal pages (@ov_leye) on Instagram and Twitter were going to be affected here. Why the break? To summarize it, I noticed I could go on a marathon, switching pages, checking what’s new, finding action attractions, satisfying my visual cravings. I suddenly felt like there was more to me than just repeating these every day. And so I dared to go offline for 2 weeks just to see what existed on the other side of the media.
Before this break, I had over 61 posts on my Instagram feed, well worded Bio, followed a couple of ‘not so beneficial’ pages, close to 3000 combined followers on Twitter and Instagram.
Truthfully, it was hard for the first two days. It felt like a big part of me was missing. My daily routines shifted, I could only login to these apps to put stuff up for my company social media pages. The need to tweet and catch up on what was trending was strong initially. I went down and found new interests, however: Cooking (YES), Taking evening walks, I read books (For real!). These were some of the things I picked up as habits in the 2 weeks.
So, here’s to the learning points. People! don’t get disillusioned by social media. The thousands/hundreds of follower count, engagement, notifications are not a true reflection of who you are. It is a trap of social acceptance if you don’t watch yourself. At the end of the 2 weeks, I reactivated my pages, glanced through at my follower count, and I said — To what end? How many of these thousands genuinely noticed my absence? I bet none.
I went on to take down over 50 posts, 50 posts that didn’t truly reflect my newly found personality. I started to unfollow pages that didn’t add value to me, cause hey! we owe it to ourselves to determine what we feed our minds with.
So, guys, at this point, social acceptance doesn’t mean a thing. I have just one thing that keeps me going right now, Pleasing GOD. (I owe you guys a full article/series of articles on this subject matter by the way).
I won’t be taking another break anytime soon, but I am already considering a career switch that will enable me to spend less time checking the Bird app & the Gram. Meanwhile, for any of my colleagues reading this, I’m very much still the custodian of our social media pages. 😎
