Since you are reading a blog, I am going to assume you are like so many of us, and regularly get on social media sites. And by regularly, I mean daily... Is this a safe assumption?

I know what they say about assuming, so if I am wrong, please accept my apologies.  But on the off chance you are like the millions of us who care multiple social media platforms around in your pocket (cell phone) then let's chat about those platforms for a moment - shall we?


There are tons of statistics about how much of our lives are being sucked in to Social Media sites... how they are ruining every aspect about our humanity... and other scary things every day.  I'm not going to spend time on what we already know.

In my experience, social media is just another example of how we never graduate high school. There will always be cliques - the popular group, the jocks, the geeks, the musicians, the artists, the misfits... you see where I'm going.  The big name social media sites have done amazingly well about getting these categories set up for us... we can like the same things and see who likes what, and just strengthen our cliques... and as a result there is a ton of bashing and bullying and crazy going on.

It's negative, and depressing.

And yet we continue to jump on these mediums because that is where everything is... our friends' pictures, our families' daily activities, our friends' recommendations, dinner recipe...





So why am I bothering with this?

Well I want to suggest you let go of at least Facebook, and spend more time on Instagram.

I am sure I could look every day and find a new reason why Facebook and their false news is no good... and yet Facebook owns Instagram.  So why I am suggesting the switch?

Well, Instagram is about pictures first.

And most people are visual.  We want to see more than read. And a picture does that.

The pictures are what you scroll through... not headlines, not lines and lines of text...

If you don't want to read someone's thoughts on a picture, you don't have to even see it. You just move on and your world is no different.

But if you see a picture that captures your attention, you can read a bit about it... and you can communicate with the person who captured that one moment in time.  Which is why this is just like so many other Social Media platforms.

But the simplicity of pictures first, and everything else second is worth the attempt.

Find your clique in a way that keeps the extra fluff away.

If you are into the fancy editing, and polishing of pictures, then hang with those people.  If you're into the outside world of sports and such, there are groups there for you.  For the mommies... well the options are crazy limitless... I can't even begin.

My point is that there are million places you can spend your time getting bombarded with every person's random thought... it's just nicer to get those random thoughts through a picture.

Won't you try it?  I suggest, if you are blogger... which goes back to my earlier assumption... again sorry... try Instagram for a month, have Instagram share your posts to your Facebook page for your blog, and just see if it makes a difference.  Like me, you might be surprised.

Are you on Instagram?  I'd love to check out your vantage of the world, leave me a note and I'll stop by!