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How to Choose The Right Social Media Platform

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March 2, 2020

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For the past few years, I have had my shares of social media platforms and while I understand the need of several platforms, I still think it is better to focus on one main social media platform above all the others. Simply because, you will end up prioritizing one platform no matter what you do. But the most important question is, which one should you prioritizing on?

If you are a business and you want to start targeting a specific audience, I think Facebook is one of the best ways. You have Facebook groups for specific niches where you can share the posts but also the Facebook Ads allow you to target specific range of people, by location and age. Facebook is also a good way of managing fan specific Pages. For example, book bloggers who want to share book memes, it’s usually via Facebook.

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I feel like of all the social media platforms, WordPress is the most user friendly for writing blog posts. If you are more into sharing your thoughts in details, and you want a community of bloggers who share the same types of lengthy posts, it’s the perfect place.

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In my opinion, WordPress is also the one platform that I have difficulty keeping track of comments and gathering more interest. Because WordPress is very exclusive to the WordPress community, it doesn’t allow much of the people who are not connected nor have an account an easy access to your website.

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By far my favourite social media platform. Obviously I love photography and the aesthetics of a photo composition, but what’s great with Instagram is that it has all the tools inside the app to make sharing my pictures and my videos easier. I would recommend Instagram if you want to start having a nice feed with a theme and blogging about your life. I know a lot of book bloggers use it, as well as fashion and food. It’s very simple really, if you like posting pictures then it is Instagram 100%. Also with the hashtags and geo-location tags, any users can find you easily. With 1 billion users active monthly, you can be sure that people will find you.

What other perks of the social media platforms you’ve been using? 🙂

13 responses to “How to Choose The Right Social Media Platform”

nickimags @ The Secret Library Book Blog

March 3, 2020

Fab post! I definitely prefer Twitter over Facebook these days. I love the speed and randomness of it. Facebook I find really clunky and I don’t get to see what I want because of the algorithms, which also happens with Instagram.

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judiththereader

March 3, 2020

I like using WordPress and Twitter 🙂

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Kristina Steiner

March 3, 2020

I’ve been over Facebook for some time now and prefer Instagram over everything else. Your feed is so pretty!

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Nancy

March 3, 2020

Very useful post ! I still think that you do a great job at having multiple platforms. I follow you on your food blog and fashion and book blog and you manage to create the content and be interesting no matter what 🙂 Is there one that you WILL prioritize over the others ?

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nsfordwriter

March 3, 2020

I find that Twitter is the most useful, as people are directed to my blog that way 🙂
I only used Facebook for a few months before getting rid of it, too much rubbish on there and people not having any self-control over what they post. I’ve been on Instagram for a year and I like it but because I can’t put links in my posts, no one reaches my blog that way.

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Meggy | Chocolate’n’Waffles

March 4, 2020

I love how Twitter allows me to chat with authors and people from the book industry. I spend so much time on there xD I love Instagram but I suck at pictures, and I now have a terrible phone, so I’m hoping one day I’ll be stricken by the photography fairies haha! I really hate Facebook, though!

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Hafsa

March 4, 2020

I struggle with prioritizing a lot. Thank you for this. Really need a reminder to help realize where to focus on. 💓

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March 10, 2020

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healed1337

March 14, 2020

I don’t spend nearly as much time on social media as I used to, and that’s a good thing (I used to spend way too much time on Facebook). Facebook Messenger can also be a useful way to try to organize get togethers with friends … as long as they also have Facebook. Apart from that, I’ll spend 2 minutes on Facebook here and there, and then I’ll move on with my day. I find that twitter can be useful in quickly glancing through to see some of the general news highlights and sharing blog posts, but that’s all I really use it for. And my blog posts are automatically shared on Twitter, so I don’t even need to log in.

WordPress is a fantastic blogging site and I would recommend it to anyone who is thinking of starting a blog. Blogspot isn’t bad either, but WordPress has more functionality, its user interface is cleaner, and it’s far more popular.

I don’t really use any other forms of social media, and I’ve got no current plans to change that.

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ignitedmoth

March 27, 2020

Great post, and very informative! 🙂

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Amber Keep

April 19, 2020

We are finding twitter to be the best platform for us to engage with a new audience! After the initial buzz FaceBook seemed to die down.

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mahimajalan

May 6, 2020

Well written post! Perfectly articulated 🤩👍 Would be glad if you can share your feedback on my new post on a similar topic:

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