Algorithms N’ Things

Let’s preface this by saying if you’re hoping for tips you have come to the wrong place, in fact, you took a wrong turn and ended up in a graveyard when you were trying to get to the waterpark.

What I am here to talk about though is how much the algorithm sucks and how much it sucks that it feels like you have to market yourself when you feel the pressure of social media. SO perhaps you can join me, and we can commiserate all together, huzzah!

I don’t really feel like keeping up with the Joneses in the bookish world as much, but in general I do feel this pressure and it doesn’t help that IRL I feel so isolated. It means I seek out social media to fill the void of having no socialization and it can mean that I quickly get surrounded by accounts that are stunning and gorgeous and with huge follower numbers as I plod along in my lazier haze.

Not to mention WE ALL KNOW about the algorithm on Instagram, it’s hard being a booksta person when the system is almost set against you and it seems like TikTok isn’t that much better and well I have no idea on ‘X’ and I kinda forget about Threads on a daily basis.

It can easily become a dejected feeling when you put your hard work out there and it’s thrown into the void. Luckily for me at my ancient age, I have some experience with this from myspace to the ol’ forum days. But, it doesn’t get any less disheartening, that’s why I’ve been trying to find my own way. I want to make connections with people and be part of a community even if it’s smaller than what’s out there. The whole of bookstagram is VAST and though I love all I see of it, I’d be happy with a small circle, or at least some show of growth, and then you add my reintroduction to the world of music and I am feeling overwhelmed and *slightly* hopeless despite my determination to not get pulled in by it.

A lot of these discussion posts might seem…disheartening (word of the day possibly) but I am hoping that if you’re feeling this way and stumble across this, then you can find some solace in it. You don’t have to comment but if you do, just know I’ll see it, someone else will too. You’re not screaming into the void here. And if you want to ever talk to me, best way to do it is on Instagram.

The blog is purely a work of love, I don’t expect anything more than to hopefully get some clicks here and there and hope a review might help someone out if they stumble across it.