I think I have a facebook hangover. I was on there for about 2 hours last night making my Toby Roxane Designs page and of course, I looked around a bit. It wasn’t so bad at the time, but this morning I woke up feeling bummed.
I’ve been saying this for a very long time: facebook is bad for your mental health. Its sole purpose is to get you to compare your insides to other peoples’ outsides, and it convinces you that what you see on the internet is patently REAL. This is not the case. “Oh, you saw it on TV so it MUST be true.” People don’t seem to realize that the same is true for the internet.
My problem is that I look at a bunch of people I hardly know and what they’re doing (and what they SAY they’re doing) and what kinds of pictures they have up and compare them to what I’M doing. I have to say, while I’m totally fascinated by everything I do in this little studio, it probably looks pretty dull from the outside, especially to a bunch of non-knitters.
I was talked into making a facebook page for my business by a number of people. “You reach so many people!” But what is this “reaching”? Great, a bunch of people who don’t know how to knit are looking at pictures of my knitwear and thinking they’re going to buy an actual hat.
This is why I’m sticking with ravelry. I’m so glad you guys all get it.
Hey Toby – I might not qualify because I’m a knitter, but I think your studio is AWESOME! You have inspired me to try to create one of my own in my little attic space. 🙂