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ghoste-catte · 3 years

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I was curious what advice would you give to someone new to writing fics? I've been wanting to get back into it but haven't seriously written something since high school. I hope this isn't an annoying question or anything!

Not an annoying question at all! I'm just a little worried that I won't have terribly good or useful advice. To be honest, I also sort of stopped writing in earnest right as I finished high school, and didn't pick it back up until my late 20s. It's certainly an adjustment! But I think the few things that really helped me get back into writing fic as a hobby and something I spend quite a bit of time on would be:

Write for yourself first, then find your other motivations. My original inspiration in getting back into fic writing was that there just were not that many fics I liked for my favorite pairing, and I wanted more of them, and I especially wanted more with the tropes and characterizations I wanted to see. I think at the very core of anything you need that internal spark that drives you. At the same time, for me at least, if I just relied on my own drive, I would not get much done; I need some external guardrails. So having people send prompts, or writing for particular events, or writing stuff for friends really helps me to get my ass in gear and finish stuff. That may not be the perfect motivator for you, and that's fine! You just gotta figure out what is.

Be open to inspiration. Anything and everything can be spun out into a story with the right tweaking. Obviously stuff like music is a classic inspiration source, but I've also pulled ideas from poetry, from memes, from Reddit threads, from YouTube videos, from rambling conversations on Discord and from real life to make fics out of. So many times, someone will post a silly Twitter screencap, and I'll think, There's a fic in this. And a lot of the time, there is! Research is a wonderful thing, but so is serendipity. If you're out there actively looking for ideas, eventually one that you like will stumble past you.

Find your community. I can genuinely say I never would have finished more than one fic if I didn't have fandom friends to talk to about even stupid headcanons, to bounce ideas off of, and to encourage me (and to encourage them in turn!). Discord has been a godsend, and some of my closest online friends are people I met in the GaaLee discord server. As I've gotten more comfortable as a writer, I've also joined general writing servers and Reddit communities and have found them immensely helpful on both a motivational level (bingos, sprints, owe-me challenges) and on a craft level (plot workshopping and writing ethics and live grammar help). It's a lot easier to think about fic ideas and hash through problem moments when I have a constant stream of fandom-related chatter coming from the little people who live in my phone! Ao3 is an amazing website, and it's great as, well, an archive, but it isn't social media by design. If you want conversation and human connection and cheerleading, you've gotta forge out and find it.

Make it a habit ... If you want to produce anything longer than a couple hundred words, you really have to set aside time for it. And writing is just like knitting or dirt biking or painting little model figurines: the more you do it, the more easily it comes. When I was first getting back into the proper swing of things, I committed myself to 30 minutes of writing per week. Just 30 minutes. I didn't even hit that goal every week, but there were tons of weeks I got on a roll and went over that amount, and by the end of the year I'd written over 200,000 words. I used to spend an hour laboriously tip-tapping out 200 words, but now I can easily blow through 1k in a 50 minute sprint. It's all about training that muscle.

... But don't make it a chore. With fanfic, you aren't doing this as a job, and you aren't ultimately doing it for anyone other than you. That means you can take breaks when you need them, you can set deadlines and then fail to meet them, you can write stuff and then decide to never post it. When you start getting burnt out, when the practice loses the joy and energy, stop. There's no 'hustle' here. In our capitalist society we're so trained to push past our limits and keep going even when it hurts us, but the hobby you do for connection and relaxation and whatever else shouldn't be like that.

Ignore metrics. Sometimes stuff isn't gonna get hits, or kudos, or comments. There are some basic 'rules' as to the stuff that does and doesn't get traction, but every time you post something it's a roll of the dice. If you're focused on watching that kudos counter tick up, you will get bummed out fast. And any writer will tell you that the stuff you think is your best work will never be the stuff that gets the most accolades. So you have to find something else to give you a sense of success. For me, it's watching my wordcount go up in my stats and those occasional comments where someone has a lot to say and that one person who always leaves me a <3 emoji (and, shout out to @egregiousderp, having someone to have long one-on-one conversations with about the stuff that never made it to page).

Don't strive for perfection. It's really easy to want your first ever fic to be a complete showstopper, the best fic fandom has ever seen, hitting all the tropes and the ideas and the characterization that you just know fandom is missing and would be everyone's top favorite if only it was written. This is a trap. No one fic can be all things. Most people who want to write an epic as their very first venture will not see the end of that epic, because they haven't put in the practice hours to make something on that scale work. That's not to say you can't start out with a big, sprawling multichap, just don't expect it to be the greatest thing since sliced bread if you're just starting out, and be okay with abandoning it for greener pastures if you get to that point. Think of the first time someone makes a vase out of clay or bakes a loaf of bread. That's never their best vase or their best bread. If they keep up with it, they'll make more and better vases and loaves. Likewise, your first fic is probably not gonna be your best fic. See it for what it is: your launchpad.

You can't edit an empty page, but you can over-edit a full one. This kind of spins off of #7, but if the words aren't there, you can't fix them. Daydreams and headcanons are fantastic (and god, how many times have I wished for a speech-to-text engine that projected my falling asleep thoughts onto a Google doc for later perusal), but they aren't fic. If you want to write fic, you've gotta get comfortable with the idea of sloppy outlines and rough first drafts. You can't build a house without a frame and you can't build a man without a skeleton (I mean, you can, I guess, but he'd be one floppy man). The nice thing about fic is that it doesn't matter if that frame is structurally unsound or the skeleton has 18 too many bones, you can clean that up in the editing process. But you can't start hanging curtains and arranging furniture in something that doesn't even have walls. That's the process. But! Also know when to set down the editor's pen and say, "Okay, this is good enough for government work", and call it done. ("Done" doesn't have to mean "posted", but it does mean, "I'm done picking at this for now, and I'm gonna go write some more stuff".) Over-editing can make stuff seem laborious and forced, and it prevents you from actually improving. To continue belaboring the house metaphor, you can spend your whole life rearranging furniture in just one room, but the end result of that is a pretty narrow existence and a room with a lot of footprints and tracks in the carpet.

Write shit down. When you have ideas, jot them down--in a notebook, in a Google Doc, in the Notes app of your phone, in pen on the back of your hand. You think you will remember that brilliant line of dialogue or sparkling snippet of narration or genius plot that came to you in a dream, but you Will Not. Write it down. Write it down. Write it down! There have been so many times when a fic was completely saved by past!me having written down my shower thoughts about what happens next in the fic, that present!me had completely forgotten about and was floundering over.

Have fun with it! Try different stuff. Try stupid stuff. Try experimental stuff. Do stuff you've never done before that you aren't sure will work. It's important to get comfortable with your niche (for example, I know I'm never going to be the sort of person who writes intricate plots of intrigue or super long 100k epics or detailed battles), but you can't find that niche unless you explore lots of different niches! Figure out what you love and what you absolutely hate, and then keep doing the stuff you love.

Okay, so that was actually TEN things, but ... I hope you still found this helpful. Feel free to send another ask if any of this was confusing or unclear. Good luck with your fic writing and, if you want, send me a link to what you've written once you've written it! I'd love to read it.

#answered #anonymous #writing advice #i guess?#am i qualified to give this?#no #but im doing it anyway

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kasumingo · 3 years

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I was tagged by @stupidusernamepolicy and for once I feel like doing one of these

1. Why did you choose your url?

Because of one of my favorite side characters from an old (by now) cartoon (not Minnie Mouse) and a post I found more hilarious than I should

2. Any side blogs?

Yeah, I run @randomfinalspaceshots and @fsproductionart, you can also check out my twitter, I tend to be more active there: https://twitter.com/minniemingo

3. How long have you been on tumblr?

The end of 2011 if I remember right

I attempted to leave more than once

4. Do you have a queue tag?

I don’t really queue stuff on my main anymore... i think i simply use #queue if i do

I definitely used to have all sorts of creative names for that but I’d have to check the web archive at this point

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place?

Mostly wanting to turn a new leaf

Originally wanting to reblog only cute stuff there but ultimately I outgrew the edgy persona vent blog I used to have before that

6. Why did you choose your icon?

I have no say in my icons anymore, whatever my brain impulsively choses from the random shit online, stays my icon for ages

7. Why did you choose your header?

This ask meme is so early-tumblr, I actually had to double check if i actually have a header

FS does backgrounds well

Especially first two seasons

8. What’s your post with the most notes?

Don’t know if that one has the most notes but I’m so proud of that Garycato edit that goes “we just bros” fgdfgf

9. How many mutuals do you have?

I really don’t keep track of this stuff anymore! I don’t even have that many followers anymore, the platform is definitely not what it used to be at its peak (thank godness)

10. How many followers do you have?

A bit over 900 the last time I checked, the most I had during my whole tumblr career got to be like 7k

11. How many people do you follow?

137, a lot of these are inactive by now

12. Have you ever made a shitpost?

It’s still very much my lifeblood

13. How much do you use tumblr every day?

I casually scroll through it whenever I have time

It’s not a matter of life and death anymore, I used to scroll my dash till I reached the point from the day before, back when it meant going through 270 pages (ALTHOUGH the dash came close to it during the recent elections omg)

14. Did you have a fight/ argument with other blog once? Who won?

Ho boy.

15. How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

I scroll faster, been there long enough for them to just make me even more numb. If your post contains guilt trip, I’m not reading it, I’m not even paying a milisecond of attention to it

16. Do you like tag games?

Used to love them, don’t really have time nor attention span anymore

I don’t like the obligatory “YOU NEED TO TAG FIVE OTHER PEOPLE OR ELSE YOUR PET DIES”

17. Do you like ask games?

I used to seek them out on specialized blogs in my early 20s, I don’t really have time nor I don’t feel like sharing that much about myself anymore. ‘Tis an exception!

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

I don’t really like or think the term is too serious or has much importance by now lol

19. Do you have a crush on a mutual?

I crush on my friends all the time

20. Tags?

I @ whoever wants it!

#txt

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hall-of-scrubs · 3 years

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Info Post

Hey guys! I thought I’d make this post to be pinned at the top of this blog! Just to have some links and let folks know what to expect here.

Basically, this is my OC blog which I use as an archive of all the stuff related to my OC that I post onto tumblr. However, I also reblog art that was done of my OCs, or for me in some way like a gift exchange or events such as Art Fight! Usually, it’s only one character whose being tagged, but I thought it’d be important to mention otherwise. Although the primary use of the blog is to be used as an archive, I try to provide whatever information I can regarding my OCs, whether it be through art, my writing (which I need to do more of), or even some funny posts on Tumblr. I’m also open to questions about any of them, so if you want to comment or ask about something, I’m more than happy to take them here as I am on my main, planetorigo!

I also reblog references that cross my path for making characters, writing stories, and so on so forth to keep them all in one place. Every once in a while, I’ll even post “Draw your Squads” or blanks for memes that you can fill in. They are all tagged accordingly and can be found in the Tags page! I’ve even categorized different references but keep in mind, there’s a good chance I might change some of those.

Also keep in mind; if you see me reblog something here, feel free to contact me to ask me to delete them if you’d prefer someone whose running an OC archive blog who compares those posts to their characters not do that with a particular post of yours.

Other Sites I Use to Host OC Stuff:

- My Toyhouse (Where I go more into detail about some of my OCs. Many pages are still a WIP, although I’m happy with what it is rn)

- OC Twitter (If you want a casual place where I talk about OCs, and also post some doodles, I recently made a Twitter for that)

Thanks for reading all of this!

#Tori types things

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likefusion · 7 years

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Is it Time to Abolish Social Media?: Sometimes I wonder how I'm still allowed to write a regular column on social media, never mind that it seems to be reasonably popular. I'm unlikely to ever write about Snapchat, for example, partly because I still can't get my head around the platform, but mainly because focusing on the technical minutiae of specific tools seems irrelevant. It's like discussing the art of the novel by analyzing the brand of typewriter George Orwell used. I don't even like the term “social media” because it defines what we do by the tools with which we do it. Therefore, any discussion of social media can't help but emphasize the role of the typewriter while reducing the importance of the writer and his craft. And then there's the buzzwordy-ness of the phrase. You're more likely to hear it thrown about marketing departments, newsrooms, and tech start-ups than *ahem* normal conversation. My wife doesn't “share to social media;” she puts photos of our cats on Facebook. My daughter doesn't “update social media;” she chats with her friends. Whatever they're doing, the particular channel is largely irrelevant. If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, it would probably only slow down the cat photos and gossip for five minutes before they switched to alternative methods to continue the same behavior. Of course they're both aware of social media as a concept, but I don't think I've ever heard them use the phrase to describe what they're doing. (At this point in the original draft, my adorable editor commented that the only other time she hears parents using the term is to attack the concept. “Protect our children from the dangers of social media,” they write, completely missing the irony of discussing their concern on Mumsnet talk boards. Just like previous concerns about rock ‘n' roll [enjoying music], horror comics [pulp fiction], and video gaming [ummm … playing games], social media becomes a lazy categorization for what other people do, completely blind to the overlaps with our own normalized behavior.) What is uniquely social about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – and the hundreds of other platforms that somehow qualify for the label – that isn't true for just about any other form of media, digital or otherwise? Crikey, the telephone, letter writing, even prehistoric cave paintings are all media intended to communicate ideas and enable social interactions between two or more people. As my editor's comment shows, we often end up using tracked changes and comments within Word documents to communicate and collaborate on the final version of an article. Even Microsoft Word can be a digital social medium. Sure, that's a private social interaction between two people collaborating on a single document, whereas discussions of social media often emphasize the more public, broadcast nature of the tools. Yet Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter DMs are most commonly used for private interactions within small groups, often only two people. Meanwhile, a Google Doc can have as many as 200 collaborators and can be made public once published. Group size and whether something is public or private are far less important to understanding social media than you might think. We need to look elsewhere. Creating the buzzword There are at least three accounts of who first coined the phrase “social media” and how it came to be. As one of these explanations hinges on little more than someone being first to register the domain name, we'll skip to the other two claims, which are far more revealing. According to then-AOL executive Ted Leonsis, the phrase was in use internally at AOL in the early 1990s. However, the first recorded use of the term is 1997 when Leonsis discussed providing internet users with “social media, places where they can be entertained, communicate, and participate in a social environment.” Writer and researcher Darrell Berry maintains that he coined the term in 1994 while developing an online media environment called Matisse. In a 1995 paper called Social Media Spaces, Berry argued that the internet shouldn't just be an archive of static pages, but a network for users to connect, engage, and interact with each other. Who said it first matters less than what both tried to articulate. Neither describes definitive features – certainly not in the way most people think of social media. Leonsis' idea of online places to communicate and participate could just as easily describe the comments thread on a blog, the reviews on Amazon, or even your webmail inbox, yet these are rarely included in discussions of social media today. And Berry's vision of the internet as one socially interactive network makes our modern usage of “social media” seem ridiculously parochial. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Do You Operate in a Social Media Bubble? 3 Questions to Ask Social media is … what exactly? Social media has featured in many court cases over the years, and if there's one place that will not tolerate a vague, undefined concept, it's a courtroom. Therefore, many lawyers have attempted to come up with a satisfactory legal definition of social media. In 2012, the California legislature settled on this gem of precision … “social media” means an electronic service or account, or electronic content, including, but not limited to, videos, still photographs, blogs, video blogs, podcasts, instant and text messages, email, online services or accounts, or Internet Web site profiles or locations. The California legislature found it impossible to delineate between social media and every other form of digital or electronic media, online and off. By this definition, someone could legally argue those private and *ahem* “artistic” photographs stored on a celebrity's smartphone are social media. California isn't alone. Every other social media policy or legal definition I have investigated is similarly broad, open-ended, and extremely unhelpful. In fact, the social media guidelines of the Australian Communications and Media Authority hedges further by stating, “Social media also includes all other emerging electronic/digital communication applications.” Way to cover your ass there. There is no unique characteristic, feature or defining trait – or even a combination of such. Every #socialmedia policy or legal definition I have investigated is broad, open-ended & unhelpful. @kimotaClick To Tweet Social media as an idea, as a concept, clearly exists – if only subjectively. Your idea of social media may differ in small or large ways from mine. But social media as a thing, as something knowable that exists in the concrete rather than the abstract, is nothing more than a myth. It's a mirage. And when you believe a mirage is real, bad things can happen. Why this matters By treating social media as somehow different (albeit, undefinably so) we fall into the trap of “social media exceptionalism.” If social media is supposedly unique or otherwise distinct from other media, then all previous rules and practices don't apply. Its special nature requires us to develop new regulations, create separate workflows, and focus on different metrics. How often have you heard or read someone argue that social media can't be held accountable or measured in the same way as other marketing activities? Exactly. Some have exploited this exceptionalism by popularizing the idea that social media marketing is a kind of alchemy, beyond the ken of mere mortals. Only they can exploit the secret algorithm or access every obscure feature. So you invite in the social media shaman to utter strange incantations about engagement, ranking factors, and influence, reinforcing the magical otherness of these tools. This belief that certain technologies and platforms are inherently social while others are not reinforces the flawed notion that social interaction is a product of the tool and not the person using it. This risk absolves us of taking responsibility for our own creativity, civility, and communication skills. Why bother if just by sharing an unimaginative branded meme or self-serving article to social it somehow magically becomes social content? The flawed notion is that social interaction is a product of the tool & not the person using it. @kimotaClick To Tweet Just as buying a typewriter doesn't make you a novelist, setting up a Facebook page doesn't imbue you with professional social skills. They are still your responsibility. Ultimately, your skills as a communicator – your way with words, your empathy, your willingness to interact – are what should define your use of a medium, any medium, as truly social. Your way w/ words, empathy, & interaction are what should define use of a medium as truly social. @kimotaClick To Tweet And then what use would we have for a phrase like “social media”? HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The Art and Science of Emotional Engagement A version of this article originally appeared in the April issue of Chief Content Officer. Sign up to receive your free subscription to our bimonthly, print magazine. Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute The post Is it Time to Abolish Social Media? appeared first on Content Marketing Institute. http://bit.ly/2qCxQRv

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gabrielcollignon · 7 years

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Is it Time to Abolish Social Media?

Sometimes I wonder how I’m still allowed to write a regular column on social media, never mind that it seems to be reasonably popular. I’m unlikely to ever write about Snapchat, for example, partly because I still can’t get my head around the platform, but mainly because focusing on the technical minutiae of specific tools seems irrelevant. It’s like discussing the art of the novel by analyzing the brand of typewriter George Orwell used.

I don’t even like the term “social media” because it defines what we do by the tools with which we do it. Therefore, any discussion of social media can’t help but emphasize the role of the typewriter while reducing the importance of the writer and his craft.

And then there’s the buzzwordy-ness of the phrase. You’re more likely to hear it thrown about marketing departments, newsrooms, and tech start-ups than *ahem* normal conversation. My wife doesn’t “share to social media;” she puts photos of our cats on Facebook. My daughter doesn’t “update social media;” she chats with her friends. Whatever they’re doing, the particular channel is largely irrelevant. If Facebook disappeared tomorrow, it would probably only slow down the cat photos and gossip for five minutes before they switched to alternative methods to continue the same behavior.

Of course they’re both aware of social media as a concept, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard them use the phrase to describe what they’re doing.

(At this point in the original draft, my adorable editor commented that the only other time she hears parents using the term is to attack the concept. “Protect our children from the dangers of social media,” they write, completely missing the irony of discussing their concern on Mumsnet talk boards. Just like previous concerns about rock ‘n’ roll [enjoying music], horror comics [pulp fiction], and video gaming [ummm … playing games], social media becomes a lazy categorization for what other people do, completely blind to the overlaps with our own normalized behavior.)

What is uniquely social about Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – and the hundreds of other platforms that somehow qualify for the label – that isn’t true for just about any other form of media, digital or otherwise? Crikey, the telephone, letter writing, even prehistoric cave paintings are all media intended to communicate ideas and enable social interactions between two or more people.

As my editor’s comment shows, we often end up using tracked changes and comments within Word documents to communicate and collaborate on the final version of an article. Even Microsoft Word can be a digital social medium.

Sure, that’s a private social interaction between two people collaborating on a single document, whereas discussions of social media often emphasize the more public, broadcast nature of the tools. Yet Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Twitter DMs are most commonly used for private interactions within small groups, often only two people. Meanwhile, a Google Doc can have as many as 200 collaborators and can be made public once published. Group size and whether something is public or private are far less important to understanding social media than you might think. We need to look elsewhere.

Creating the buzzword

There are at least three accounts of who first coined the phrase “social media” and how it came to be. As one of these explanations hinges on little more than someone being first to register the domain name, we’ll skip to the other two claims, which are far more revealing.

According to then-AOL executive Ted Leonsis, the phrase was in use internally at AOL in the early 1990s. However, the first recorded use of the term is 1997 when Leonsis discussed providing internet users with “social media, places where they can be entertained, communicate, and participate in a social environment.”

Writer and researcher Darrell Berry maintains that he coined the term in 1994 while developing an online media environment called Matisse. In a 1995 paper called Social Media Spaces, Berry argued that the internet shouldn’t just be an archive of static pages, but a network for users to connect, engage, and interact with each other.

Who said it first matters less than what both tried to articulate. Neither describes definitive features – certainly not in the way most people think of social media. Leonsis’ idea of online places to communicate and participate could just as easily describe the comments thread on a blog, the reviews on Amazon, or even your webmail inbox, yet these are rarely included in discussions of social media today. And Berry’s vision of the internet as one socially interactive network makes our modern usage of “social media” seem ridiculously parochial.

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Do You Operate in a Social Media Bubble? 3 Questions to Ask

Social media is … what exactly?

Social media has featured in many court cases over the years, and if there’s one place that will not tolerate a vague, undefined concept, it’s a courtroom. Therefore, many lawyers have attempted to come up with a satisfactory legal definition of social media. In 2012, the California legislature settled on this gem of precision …

“social media” means an electronic service or account, or electronic content, including, but not limited to, videos, still photographs, blogs, video blogs, podcasts, instant and text messages, email, online services or accounts, or Internet Web site profiles or locations.

The California legislature found it impossible to delineate between social media and every other form of digital or electronic media, online and off. By this definition, someone could legally argue those private and *ahem* “artistic” photographs stored on a celebrity’s smartphone are social media.

California isn’t alone. Every other social media policy or legal definition I have investigated is similarly broad, open-ended, and extremely unhelpful. In fact, the social media guidelines of the Australian Communications and Media Authority hedges further by stating, “Social media also includes all other emerging electronic/digital communication applications.” Way to cover your ass there. There is no unique characteristic, feature or defining trait – or even a combination of such.

Every #socialmedia policy or legal definition I have investigated is broad, open-ended & unhelpful. @kimota Click To Tweet

Social media as an idea, as a concept, clearly exists – if only subjectively. Your idea of social media may differ in small or large ways from mine. But social media as a thing, as something knowable that exists in the concrete rather than the abstract, is nothing more than a myth. It’s a mirage.

And when you believe a mirage is real, bad things can happen.

Why this matters

By treating social media as somehow different (albeit, undefinably so) we fall into the trap of “social media exceptionalism.” If social media is supposedly unique or otherwise distinct from other media, then all previous rules and practices don’t apply. Its special nature requires us to develop new regulations, create separate workflows, and focus on different metrics. How often have you heard or read someone argue that social media can’t be held accountable or measured in the same way as other marketing activities? Exactly.

Some have exploited this exceptionalism by popularizing the idea that social media marketing is a kind of alchemy, beyond the ken of mere mortals. Only they can exploit the secret algorithm or access every obscure feature. So you invite in the social media shaman to utter strange incantations about engagement, ranking factors, and influence, reinforcing the magical otherness of these tools.

This belief that certain technologies and platforms are inherently social while others are not reinforces the flawed notion that social interaction is a product of the tool and not the person using it. This risk absolves us of taking responsibility for our own creativity, civility, and communication skills. Why bother if just by sharing an unimaginative branded meme or self-serving article to social it somehow magically becomes social content?

The flawed notion is that social interaction is a product of the tool & not the person using it. @kimota Click To Tweet

Just as buying a typewriter doesn’t make you a novelist, setting up a Facebook page doesn’t imbue you with professional social skills. They are still your responsibility. Ultimately, your skills as a communicator – your way with words, your empathy, your willingness to interact – are what should define your use of a medium, any medium, as truly social.

Your way w/ words, empathy, & interaction are what should define use of a medium as truly social. @kimota Click To Tweet

And then what use would we have for a phrase like “social media”?

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The Art and Science of Emotional Engagement

A version of this article originally appeared in the April issue of Chief Content Officer. Sign up to receive your free subscription to our bimonthly, print magazine.

Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute

The post Is it Time to Abolish Social Media? appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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hotspreadpage · 7 years

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Is it Time to Abolish Social Media?

Of course they’re both aware of social media as a concept, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard them use the phrase to describe what they’re doing.

Creating the buzzword

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Do You Operate in a Social Media Bubble? 3 Questions to Ask

Social media is … what exactly?

Every #socialmedia policy or legal definition I have investigated is broad, open-ended & unhelpful. @kimota Click To Tweet

And when you believe a mirage is real, bad things can happen.

Why this matters

The flawed notion is that social interaction is a product of the tool & not the person using it. @kimota Click To Tweet

Your way w/ words, empathy, & interaction are what should define use of a medium as truly social. @kimota Click To Tweet

And then what use would we have for a phrase like “social media”?

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The Art and Science of Emotional Engagement

A version of this article originally appeared in the April issue of Chief Content Officer. Sign up to receive your free subscription to our bimonthly, print magazine.

Cover image by Joseph Kalinowski/Content Marketing Institute

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lucyariablog · 7 years

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Is it Time to Abolish Social Media?

Of course they’re both aware of social media as a concept, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard them use the phrase to describe what they’re doing.

Creating the buzzword

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Do You Operate in a Social Media Bubble? 3 Questions to Ask

Social media is … what exactly?

Every #socialmedia policy or legal definition I have investigated is broad, open-ended & unhelpful. @kimota Click To Tweet

And when you believe a mirage is real, bad things can happen.

Why this matters

The flawed notion is that social interaction is a product of the tool & not the person using it. @kimota Click To Tweet

Your way w/ words, empathy, & interaction are what should define use of a medium as truly social. @kimota Click To Tweet

And then what use would we have for a phrase like “social media”?

HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: The Art and Science of Emotional Engagement

A version of this article originally appeared in the April issue of Chief Content Officer. Sign up to receive your free subscription to our bimonthly, print magazine.

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