Updating My Social Media Sites and the Guilt About Abandoning Them

Earlier this year I decided to start updating all my social media sites more frequently. Before this, I mostly used Twitter to post updates that I have published new posts on my blogs. This time, I decided to try to update all of them more frequently.

The problem is I’ve been struggling with a lot of feeling about my social medias. One of the major feelings is guilt about abandoning them. For some, I’ve had them for over ten years and created them to promote my art, which, at that time, is what I was trying to turn into a full time career. Since then I’ve drifted into other topics similar to my blogs. Yet, in the extremely late 2010’s, I stopped posting as much as I used to be.

Around this time I began to focus on my physical health. I struggled with some serious health problems at that time and I wanted to focus on getting better, and possibly fully recover from the health problems. Since then I recovered from them, but I still have other health issues (Allergies, food allergies, skin problems, ect.) yet I’m doing so well, I decided to return to them again.

Today, I don’t create illustrations or art like I used to. Now, I focus on other things and like to post about them. Yet, I feel conflicted about posting about these new things instead of art.

So far nothing bad has happened (Followers complaining about it, ect.) but I feel conflicted about posting and using these sites. I wish I published more on them during 2020, but I was very busy that year and, like most people, I was trying to focus on keeping my health in check. I didn’t have the time nor the energy and drive to create art or post everywhere. So, I focused on a few sites I knew I could keep up with and continued working on them.

I really don’t know if posting on these old social media sites will help drive attention to my work, no matter if it is art or not, but I feel bad about ignoring them. I feel like I should delete them if I don’t use them anymore or say something about my decision to no longer use them. So, I’m going to continue posting on them (As much as possible) just to see what happens. Worst case scenario, I will feel better about keeping them!

That’s all for now! Thank you for reading!