I love being a blogger, and I love reading blogs... it is my spare time, all of it, consumed with my blog. But there is things about it that annoys me, and I am sure I am not alone here! So I thought we could share our top annoyances, so here is mine....
1. Twitter Auto DMs
The bain of every twitter user at the moment, and it seems to be way more common now too, no one wants an automated message, no one needs one! So if you have one and think it's the right thing to do - please PLEASE stop, you are not making friends this way, and no - it won't make people follow you. It's a sure way to loose followers!
2. The Follow & Unfollow Method
This is so bad on Instagram especially. It drives me flipping bonkers, 10 people will follow you, 20 will unfollow on a daily basis, it is an uphill struggle. What makes this all worse is there is people who love this method, because unfortunately... it works.
3. Buying Followers
This one is top of the list on how to piss me off. People who pay money for followers, then expect brands to send them things based on this. They give influencers a bad name. Easiest way to spot them on instagram is to see their likes per picture. If someone has been active for a while, their likes per picture should be between 5-10% of their followers. (I have 2700 followers on IG currently, and get around 190-280 likes per picture). I have a "blogger" local to me, who bought 25K of followers, she is lucky to get 100 likes per photo - but she demands brand collaborations, drives me bonkers!
4. Being Shady
Ohhh you just thought to write about something totally not beauty related on your beauty blog, put in a follow link and not declare? Not cool! We have all seen them, and it is just bad practice - not to mention you could get into a lot of trouble!
5. Just Expecting Things
We all know one person on twitter that seems to believe they have a right to openly ask any and every brand, related or not to their blog - to be sent something. I am all for contacting brands if you have a good idea for a post, or want to be considered etc, but have some tact about it, don't use twitter begging for things - it isn't pretty.
6. "Great Post" *Twitter, BL, Blog, IG, Facebook Link*
I love it when people share their link at the end of a comment, it lets me interact better, visit their blog, and keep an eye on who is commenting. But I really hate it when people are clearly just copying and pasting the same comment onto everyone's blog, usually followed with every link they have - most of which are broken, it just isn't good form, and it won't make me want to visit your blog!
7. Samey Samey
Recently it feels like a lot of blogs are producing the same content with the same type of photos, same props, same everything. Sometimes I find myself lost on who's blog I am on! I can be a victim of this myself, I mean copper and marble everything is just perfection, but sometimes I feel like I get lost in it all, maybe I am alone here?
8. Algorithms
Ever since IG, Facebook & Instagram introduced the reorder of the posts I feel like I work 10x as hard to stand out. Sometimes it is like fighting a loosing battle if you post the same time as Kim K for example you are totally skrewed.
9. Not Interacting Back
This one has upset me recently. I comment on A LOT of blogs, like a lot. I am addicted to my Bloglovin' account. I try really hard to make sure I visit as many blogs as I can across the week (but I am in no way saying I am perfect at this!) and I see a lot of even really big bloggers doing the same, which is lovely! But I really dislike when some just don't give anything back, nothing at all - its frustrating and will eventually stop me visiting a blog when I see this!
10. Sending Me Irrelevant SnapChats
So this one is mainly due to my friends and the odd random. I daily vlog on my Snapchat (MakeErinOver) and I love interacting with people on there, sending them Chats via their stories, and sending snaps to people of things I think they would like, I love getting messages on there, or when people snap me thinking of me via make up etc. LOVE IT. But I hate getting snaps from people of things that belong in their story, something that is of no relevance to me, its irritating, and not good snapchatty behaviour.
Which things annoy you most about Social Media and Blogging? Let me know in the comments below :)
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Haha, well said��
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DeleteLoved this post! I can definitely agree with most of these haha. Especially the last one!
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Haha thanks!
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