How to Have a Healthy Relationship with Social Media
Most social medias are designed to keep you engaged. They get paid for every ad you see, the longer you stay engaged, the happier the shareholders are when they look at the quarterly revenue. SnipeSocial is a different. It offers enough feeds, communities, publishing formats, commerce tools, and alerts to occupy every hour you want to spend on social media, but without an algorithm, you will eventually get bored.
Every choice you make takes a little bit of energy, the choice to go find an interesting community to interact with takes a lot more energy than the simple scroll of a thumb. There are only so many things you’ll want to do on SnipeSocial in one sitting.
Posting, replying, and researching all draw from the same limited source of attention. You only have so much attention on any given day, so budget it like you would your monthly expenses.
How to Budget Your Attention
Even without an algorithm, there is plenty on SnipeSocial to give your attention to. Decide how to spend your attention is a delicate art. Stephen Covey illustrates this art well in his book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by dividing task into four quadrants based on their importance and urgency. Anything unimportant like distractions and procrastinations should obviously be avoided, but the most important take away from the concept is to focus on tasks that are important but not urgent.
When we focus on urgent tasks, we tend to be stressed about them, which lowers the quality of our results. Thinking proactively about what we can do to improve our future situation and focusing on the tasks that will have the biggest impact, even if that impact needs time to take effect, will ensure your long term success.
When it comes to having a healthy relationship with social media, it means: Batch simple work, mute low-value notifications, and let planned days off remain off. SnipeSocials chronological feed will keep moving while you are away, and that’s okay. If it’s important, you’ll see it and if your customers are online while you’re away, they’ll see your last post.
Quicklist
- Set a weekly time budget
- Batch notification checks
- Reuse reliable content formats
- Take planned days away
Take care of your customers and yourself by keeping a minimum presence for busy periods, ( e.g. one useful update and two response sessions per week ). This will show your prospects that you are reliable.
Put it into practice
Get started with SnipeSocial or set a social media time limit for the next seven days. Stop when you’ve reached your limit and reflect on what you did during that time. If you catch yourself doing things that are unimportant but seem urgent, remember the four quadrants from Stephen Covey and try to avoid those tasks during your next social media time block.
This to take note of including any question, reply, sale, or useful visits. Keeping a record of what happened can help to guide you when you decide what to do next.
Next steps
For a deeper understanding of how to use SnipeSocial. The Kindle ebook is available worldwide and included with Kindle Unlimited. Or, if you would prefer a hard copy you can get one at the links below based on your location: