How to set boundaries with social media as a content creator

Manisha Reddy

Jun 28

As a blogger I should admit that social media is very essential to promote your content and share with the people all over the world. Social media brings you traffic and your content gets exposure. I know as a blogger I hardly imagine without social media. Social media helps you connect with likeminded content creators from all across the world. I learn a lot of new things from other content creators. As we live in the digital world and it's really tough to expect life without technology.

Not only content creators people from all across the world will have a chance to see your work and they appreciate you if they like your work.
So all these are impossible if you don't have social media. It makes life of content creators easy. It helps people find your vlogs, blogs at their convenience.

Content creators comes in various forms it may be bloggers, vloggers, social media influencers. People say that as a content creator your job is easy that there is no 9 to 5 job but you can work anywhere anytime. I agree to that there are no certain timings to work but as a content creator you job will be 24/7. There are people who admire you, love you, inspired by you and motivated by you. They send you likes and comments.

If you are a popular content creator it's difficult to respond to each of them. Though you can try sometimes it becomes impossible. This might take a toll on your mental health for not able to manage your work. There are times when you have to spend a lot of time in social media to manage your work and when you see the time later on you will be surprised to see the time you spend on social media.
There will be really less time you are spending time with real people or its difficult to manage relationships. You are lost on your own world.

Frankly speaking I am just a hobby blogger and planning to take my blog seriously in future. Being a hobby blogger it's also not so easy. Recently I took a five month break and blog stats dropped drastically. It took a lot of time for me to get back to form. As a blogger I have to use social time for some time so that I have to promote my blog in all social media platforms which means I have to spend time in social media for a while to make sure that I presented it perfectly.

In the process of promoting blog many of us spend a little more time than expected. Sometimes we wonder we are scrolling for a long time without any purpose. These extra time you spend on social media you can even make new content for your blog or vlogs.

Here are 5 tips which I follow inspite of using social media for promoting my blog.

01) In the first place I stopped all the notifications of social media and it prevented me to take a look at them every time a notifications comes.
It's not possible for anyone to respond to every comment at different times.

02) Have some dedicated time for social media where you can promote your blog and respond to each and every comment at same time. As I am just a hobby blogger I don't get much comments but those who are established bloggers or YouTubers they get a lot and lot of comments. So finally it's their call to respond to how many comments they can respond.

03) It's very important to know your blog needs. Like how much time you can spend on social media and how much time you can spend on your content creation depends on your requirements. As a blogger when I publish blog posts then later I will share all the links in all the social media channels at once. It helps me to manage screen time too.

04) Coming to screen time you should make sure to manage screen time according to your use. A little less screen time its always helpful to your eyes and keeps you healthy.

05) There is lot of debate on whether you should have social media apps on your phone or not. As a content creator it's not easy to respond every comment which comes on your phone. I don't think that you should delete all social media apps because you have some personal life too. Keeping aside as a content creator you are like a regular person who will keep contact with their loved ones. I Personally manage with both personal and professional requirements.

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