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Instagram is All About Reels for Now, But I’m Thinking About Microblogging There Anyway.
I may be wasting my time, but it sounds like fun.
Reels, Reels, Reels. Instagram is all about Reels, but I am thinking about microblogging on the platform. Instagram is crowded and noisy — I am aware, but I want to explore it.
I’ve had a few conversations on this platform with people about how I left social media for 8 years. Just stopped everything in 2013. I dropped in on Twitter on my old account maybe once or twice in 2017 (I can’t even log into my old Twitter and Facebook accounts anymore because I don’t have access to my old email account).
But mostly, during that time, I put my head down and wrote as a ghostwriter. In 2020, I lifted my head up from the computer screen after I wrote a post for someone (I can’t tell you who) that went viral. I should have been happy, but I nearly cried.
Shortly afterward, I wrote a speech for someone who sent me a video of their standing ovation. I nearly cried again.
I knew my career as a ghostwriter had to end.
I wanted people to hear my voice and know it was me. Maybe that’s vain, but I didn’t want to be a ghost anymore. I didn’t want to stand behind the curtain while someone else walked out on stage and took a bow — with my…
