social media | Fat Wallet Refugee

I watched a video on YouTube the other day that I felt especially compelled by. It got me to stop and think a bit more about my previous YouTube channels and to reconsider posting videos.

When I decided to close GameGirlsGallery (GGG), I also deleted my ASMR and Thrifting channels as well. They other two had fewer than a hundred subscribers, so it wasn’t any real loss.

After 18 months, GGG had well over a thousand subscribers and I regularly got comments and engagement on the content I posted. The decision to close the channel was difficult, but necessary. It was the same with removing that type of content from this website (Hard Choices: Removing Site Content).

Well, yesterday, I decided to go ahead and try again with YouTube. I’m terrible with following through on plans, but I will try to do a live stream every Wednesday and a recorded video once a week.

Ideally, I would like to be able to livestream with my phone, but you need 50 subscribers to do livestreams using the YouTube app. I thought about doing it in the office, but its so messy here, I’d be quite embarrassed.

I ordered an action camera off of eBay for 20 bucks and that should arrive sometime next week if holiday traffic doesn’t slow the parcel down. Its magnetic and has a lanyard and metal pad that can fit under clothes. That will allow me to film while I am out sourcing, but still keep my hands free.

I really wanted an Insta360 Go 3S, but its way out of my price range. My wallet can’t handle anything that fancy. Hopefully, the generic I bought will be able to manage my needs.

Other than videos related to eBay, I will likely include some slideshow videos of my domestic travel blog series.

Anyways, the channel is @FatWalletRefugee (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMzS1MYRiA570YCdXuEEQ-g)

Thanks for reading. See you next time!

How do you use social media?

I never quite got a handle of the best use for social media platforms.

I think I must spend the majority of my time watching YouTube videos.

I am not sure if I would really consider YouTube to be a social media platform. Beyond the comments section, there is little interaction with viewers.

I tried my hardest to adapt to the likes of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter when they were just starting out. It was all just so foreign to me.

Especially Facebook. I mean my friends were just a walk away or I would see them in class. I didn’t see the need for it.

My Instagram account is just mostly pictures of food or the garden. I also made a separate account for gaming stuff.

I did use reddit for a long time to talk about doing games and offers in Swagbucks and other services. In fact, some of my early successes with this site came from what I learned from blogging subreddit.

At some point though I deleted my reddit account. I don’t recall why I thought it needed to be so.

Twitter never really took off for me. I don’t think my tag use was good. I would either use too many or not enough.

I also tried my hand at Tumblr, but I didn’t like all the adult content on the platform. No matter how many times I blocked someone or said I wasn’t interested, the site kept pushing adult content into my feed.

Instagram also has a problem with mature content. There are many accounts that are used to disseminate adult content despite the terms of service.

Reporting those accounts is useless. No humans are involved in the process and bad actors have free run of the platform.

The world of social media can be dangerous. You need to stay alert and be careful of what you click on.

That’s it for now.

Questions or comments put them below and thanks for reading.