I mentioned Instagram the other day... and what a thoroughly depressing app it is. However, I know it can be used as a tool for promotion (I have a vanilla blog which definitely benefitted from me using Instagram to promote it) so I thought maybe I can use it to spread the word about this blog too. Now I'm not an expert, but I figured the easiest way to do that would be to search for 'Femdom', 'Chastity' and things like that and then start 'following' users that I thought might be tempted to follow me back... because that, to my understanding, is how this whole can of bullshit works.
But oh my God... it was so hard to find anyone who I actually wanted to follow. Mostly it was exactly what I probably should have expected. Youngish women draped in PVC, carrying whips and walking around their (well, maybe not 'their'...) expensive looking houses, looking pissed off and spitting at the camera and generally acting like a caricature of a dominant woman stomping around shouting about 'pegging' and demanding money left right and centre.
So honestly it was a bit of a relief when I eventually came across a post by dx_mephistopheles. Finally here was an elegant, dominant lady talking intelligently and eloquently about Femdom from an adult perspective, offering genuinely good advice/commentary rather than making herself look ridiculous. It's heartening to see that she has 56k followers. Surely not as many as some of those other accounts, but she seems like someone who genuinely knows what's what and isn't engaging in a game of 'dress-up' to extract money from lonely guys on the internet.
But that one account aside, I really didn't come across anything remotely inspiring and I wasn't too sure that promoting my blog on Instagram was going to work that well, but I decided to create an account anyway. But before I could even post anything, Instagram suspended my account on the grounds of 'integrity'... which I don't really understand to be honest. Their guidelines don't seem to apply to me, so I'm guessing they didn't like my username which was 'chastity.femdom.blogspot'.
Well, I started the appeal process but then after completing a capture and then getting a code then they wanted a mobile number and I thought, you know what... Instagram can FUCK RIGHT OFF. It's a dreadful, soul sapping, IQ killing waste of space and I can absolutely live without it. So that's the last you'll hear about Instagram from me.
Instagram, Facebook, X - Twitter, Fetlife, none of them are worth the hassle of even signing up for in my experience. The whole social media "thing" is sort of a joke these days. Either censored, privacy invading, hardcore left or right, bots determining who can join, what posts, words, keywords are allowed, it's like being in kindergarten. Nope, I"ll pass. :)
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