I don’t like Instagram (IG)—never have. There, I said it.
The biggest issue I have with IG is that it’s a platform based on images, so a photo is required with every post. I don’t want to post an image most of the time I want to share something. I’m a writer. My product is text. So almost every time I post there, I have to create an image of that text. And that’s just silly.
I only joined it to host my 50-word stories when I decided, in January of 2021, to write 3 of them around a theme every day in 2021. I’d heard of accounts that had a shtick going viral on there, accounts like:
- theydidntdie – Obituary Euphemisms for Died
- rtbcheerful – Reasons to be Cheerful
- tanksgoodnews – Good News
and I had big dreams of my 50-word stories being my shtick and doing the same thing. Since that didn’t happen, and I’m done writing them, I’m happy to not log in daily there to post them.
It’s no secret that IG is a “young people’s platform,” so my biggest draw to go there now is that it’s where a lot of my work colleagues post stuff.
So, I’ll hang out on my @instatome account, and let my @jm50wordstories account rest.
