No Instagram
I'm only going to be posting on my website instead of instagram and website.
One of my friends told me that she hopes my blog blows up on instagram. I think I brushed it off, but I secretly wished that would happen. I realized I’ve been looking at the follower count and hoping it would grow, but then I wondered about why I have a blog?
I enjoyed talking to my friends over deep issues, usually over text. In High School, I hated appearing like a nerd so I couldn’t have these conversations out in the open. As time went on, I lost friends and didn’t have time to go back and forth over text, usually dragging out till the night. I still wanted to discuss the ideas I’ve read in books or ask them what they think about certain ideologies and why they valued it. So then I thought, why don’t I just publish all my criticisms or articles, so whoever wants to talk to me about something in my blog can talk to me, and this was the case when my blog first started. Even as my instagram grew from just a couple followers to 500 (it’s not a lot), but I do feel like I didn’t write the same. I started prioritizing the wrong actions in the writing process. This blog isn’t about grammar or perfection, I want to get an idea out so it can be discussed
My amazing friends would always respond to me in a dm and tell me what they think, but now I feel like me being on instagram is discouraging that behavior. I want to have these conversations, and being on instagram just doesn't make the people feel special enough. I don’t even know all my instagram followers, but I know most people on my mailing list well. So in order to reinstate the purpose of the blog I’m gonna only post on the website, but I’ll have this instagram up and I’ll even give it to people, as an invitation to a conversation about my ideas, so if they ever wondered what Jess was all about, they can click and see.
There are people who read my blog that I don’t know that well, and I think it's kinda cool. One of my friends came up to me and asked me why I stopped writing like, I didn’t even know this guy could read (sarcasm).
I hope this makes the blog a little bit more personal, because that’s the whole point of it.
Gang stay suited up styll