Do Not Let Social Media Dictate What You Make
hen Elon Musk took over Twitter, I removed my account there. I had close to four thousand followers and have not missed it a single day; I have not regretted leaving the platform for one second. Instagram seems to have died, too.
All platforms eventually die, superseded by the next cool new thing. Don’t invest too much in one platform, and create for the long term.
Create things that will be valuable ten years from now. (A post on Social Media is not that.)
I make my weekly articles timeless, and I hope they are as valid as they are now ten years from now.
Create things you enjoy, and other people will like your work, too, ten years from now, when the current social media platforms will have changed unrecognizably. You can do anything in your sketchbook without worrying about how an audience will respond. If you like it, there will be an audience; others will also love it.
It’s not worth spending a lot of time designing things for the here today, gone tomorrow social media platforms.
Create things you enjoy, and other people will like your work too, ten years from now when the current social media platforms have changed unrecognizably. You can do anything in your sketchbook without worrying about how an audience will respond. If you like it, there will be an audience for it; others will also love it.
Yours sincerely,
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