Hi pretties –
F.O.S.M.P – what? You don’t know what that stands for? ‘Fear of social media posting’ of course.
That may have made you laugh – or you’re a tad confused? Either way, I promise you – ‘fear of social media posting’ is real. Let’s talk through it.
So, you took the most AWESOME photo this weekend – you go girl. You have stared at this picture for hours & you LOVE it. That photo may have been a selfie, or you rocking your new bikini, maybe it was a picture of your cat or plants – MAYBE IT WAS A PICTURE OF A DOG. Whatever your picture, I’m sure it’s a great picture.
You love this picture soooo much & you just can’t wait to post it – but WAIT…..it’s not prime posting time. Hmm, maybe you can post it tomorrow.
Tomorrow comes, you’re all ready to post your picture – but wait, you’re not sure about the editing anymore & need to try a couple different presets – CRAP, you missed prime posting time again. Maybe you can try again the next day.
The next day comes around, You’re SUPER pumped – today is the day that you are going to share your picture!!!! But all of a sudden you get cold feet, you’ve been staring at the photo too long & now you think you have a lazy eye or you don’t like the way your hand is on your hip – you MUST send it to your group message with the girls for approval. YES – they loved it of course, but you missed prime posting time. Give it another go tomorrow.
TODAY IS THE DAY – you are determined to post that damn picture. Uh oh, you forgot what your caption was going to be. You pull up google, pinterest & all of the screenshotted quotes in your camera roll for inspiration – about 30 minutes later you remembered what you wanted your caption to be, but OF COURSE YOU MISSED PRIME POSTING TIME. Try again next year, maybe?
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I think you get the point.
I know all of what you just read was slightly exaggerated, but somewhere along those lines – I think we all can relate to ‘fear of social media posting’. I know – it sounds super lame, like wow, we just have it SO rough – don’t we?
I’m not writing this to give anybody a hard time – I’m writing this because I have for sure been victim of having the ‘fear of social media posting’ & I am hear to tell you, It’s trash.
Go back to that 3rd paragraph, the one that said, “So, you took the most AWESOME photo this weekend – you go girl. You have stared at this picture for hours & you LOVE it.”!
There you go, right there you guys – that is all that matters. THAT YOU LOVE THE PICTURE.
So post it. Post it. Post it. Post it.
Post it at whatever time of day.
Post it with whatever filter.
Post it with whatever caption you want.
JUST POST IT FOR YOU.
Forget about how many likes it might get, who cares if its not at prime time, it’s okay if you have a spelling error – edit it real fast, who cares if that cute boy/girl doesn’t see it, its okay if he/she didn’t like your picture, its cool if not everyone comments on it, everything will be okay!
I promise, stop worrying about everyone else – post it for you!