Social media, Y U proliferate?

[chinders]

I'm on approximately 5 different forms of social media right now, and LJ is not currently my primary one. I don't copy all my small meaningless posts here, but I tend to copy the big ones. I've also recently started a blog for beauty & body politics stuff. (Yes, I know I am a weird kind of nerd, that's the pointRead more... )

Comments

[mrissa]

So here's the deal:

If you post the content here, I will read it here.

If you post a link here, I will follow the link.

If you don't do either of the above, I will read your blog, but probably less promptly.

So really: I'm taken care of here.

[tiger_spot]

Me too. If you post links both here and on G+, I'll be seeing them twice, which seems a bit repetitive, but not spammy.

I would suggest posting links rather than content so all the discussion is in one place.

[voyeurprincess]

I have your blog in my feed reader, so I'm covered. (Just sent you potential post fodder and general yumminess on FB.) So long as you're posting on a platform where I don't have to have a new account to read/comment, doesn't matter whether you cross-link.

[desperance]

If you post the content, I'll read it with interest.

If you post a link, I'll probably click through most of the time, but oy, the effort.

If you don't do either, I just won't see it. And that would make me sad.

[chinders]

I think perhaps what I will do is post links & a blurb so that folks can tell whether it's interesting stuff to them.

[desperance]

That works for me. *nods encouragingly*

(I do get irritated by people who offer links without any content/quote/blurb, nothing to help you decide if you want to leave this place where you've chosen to be and go off somewhere else into the dark...)

[chinders]

Yeah, links by themselves are not useful, often. At least a page title guys, come on.

[brooksmoses]

You could do the LJ syndication thing, which would auto-post stuff in a separate journal that people could follow or not as they chose.

With that said, putting stuff here seems fine to me too.