Another thought on #SocialMedia Posting

This is something I am constantly struggling with when it comes to posting on the various Social Media Platforms --- What to post? How to post (as in how do you write your post)? When to post? How often to post? so on and so forth.

Perhaps it is just who i am (aka my personality), but I am forever second guessing myself as to whether or not I am posting the right kinds of things. Sure I post what I'm gonna post, but then later I wonder are the things I'm posting "biting me in the butt" so to speak? And then there is the question of when do I post? Sure there's programs/applications out there to help analyze the best time of day and you can even opt set up automatic postings to go out at those times.... Except that it only lets you do so many days at a time and to set up scheduled posts on something like hootsuite you have to buy the pro-version.

Personally, I feel like a dismal failure when it comes to Social Media. I've only got a handful of followers on any one platform (and some of those are actually duplicates among different platforms). Any one of my posts only gets maybe a couple likes/shares (at best) on any given platform (again see note about duplicates/duplicity). Kind of makes me wonder Why the hell I even bother.... I mean who the heck is gonna see this stuff anyway - Right?

The Big Picture - All those different #SocialMedia Platforms

Just a little thought that had popped into mind in terms of Social Media Platforms. With so many different platforms out there and so many different ways for people to share and "like" it really becomes difficult to get a good picture of just how well you are doing. Personally I have a twitter account, FB account, Google+ account - as well as this blog and sister blog on Blogger (basically copies of blogs here - just a different platform for people who use that instead of this). Ohh yeah and lots not forget my Instagram account. I post on all the different platforms that I use (though I don't necessarily always get everything on every platform). To get a picture of how a specific post may have done basically requires to look at all the different platforms I'm using and see who shared/liked. The problem with this is that it is time consuming (and that's just one one post - can you imagine looking at every post?). Even getting a full picture of your "followers" can be a bit difficult (though not as much so as individual posts). In my case I don't have many followers so to go through and count up my over all followers would probably not be all that difficult (if I ever really wanted to take the time to do so), but for those with many followers it would be a bit more challenging to go through and look for duplicities (where one person is following on several platforms).

Sure there are several platforms (though I don't really know much about them) that supposedly combine everything together to give you a picture or idea of how your doing both on an individual post level as well as on a general - over all - level. ; But, it seems to me, that they don't always necessarily show everything.

So there you have my thoughts on that. Sorry to say, I am no expert when it comes to Social Media and Social Media Platforms. If you want to look at some "expert" blogs Here are some to peruse:

BundlePost
GunnarSpeaks
B2SocialMedia
Social Media Dudes