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Saturday, January 12th, 2019 16:21![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zimenaI have been thinking of fixing up my Instagram account(s) for a while now. The thought of doing that just keeps getting pushed away, because I'm not that active over there to begin with.
But, my problem was that I had two accounts. One personal, and one Johannes fan account. On the fan account, I follow quite a bit of skiing stuff, but I don't follow random people back from it. I did in the beginning, though, so there might be some "randoms" on there still - either because I forgot to remove them, or because they post stuff I like to see, even if it's not fanstuff. This season I haven't been updating that account, though, so it's mostly just "there" - I don't look at it that much.
Then, there is my personal account. I keep it locked because of the personal stuff on it, but I also follow various stuff from it - friends, artistic instagrammers I like, athletes I admire, random interesting things. Yet, I'm also kind of nervous to comment and follow non-famous people with it, because I don't want to accept following requests from people I don't know outside of IG, and I kind of don't want to have random people on there as long as there are photos of me there. So, for that reason it's pretty clear that I need a non-private IG for the kind of stuff I don't mind sharing openly, and for following stuff, too.
Well, last night I cleaned up the personal account. I archived the dark poetry posts and the sports fangirling, so what's left now is the actual personal stuff. Then I unfollowed all the arts and famous people stuff, so that only friends remain. I also put my real first name in the account name (username is still the same as it was, though). The account is of course still private. If I had you friended, you're still friended now, so you probably would not even notice any changes if I had not mentioned it here. The only change might be that I'll end up posting even less than I already did, and probably only if I'm travelling, or very rarely if I take some interesting photo of something that is happening around me.
Finally, I also have an open account here: FireAndRain19.
I might not post THAT much on there either, but I feel like it's a good thing to have an account from which I can comment freely, without directing attention to the real me. I haven't even followed a lot of stuff yet, but I'll probably add back much of what I removed from the personal account. Of course I'll also be happy to add you from this account, so feel free to add me - and drop a note to say who you are if that's not obvious from your username.
Also, I won't fill up your feed with endless posts from this account either. There might be occasional outbursts of love related to sports or music, or perhaps a bit of thoughtful/dark text/poetry - kind of like the stuff I archived on the other account, I guess. However, IG is not the first place that falls into my head when I want to post something, so it's not like I'm gonna get much more active than I were in the first place.
At least now there is a public and a private account. And my Johannes fan account is... still on hiatus, because I don't feel like updating every time there are news these days. I kind of feel that running a fan account requires doing a proper job with updating regularly, and I just don't feel like posting in that way at the moment, so for me it feels better to just keep the account on indefinite hiatus. I did find out when I logged into the account yesterday that... Johannes himself follows it since about September 2018, so my heart kind of did a leap at that. There are tons of fan accounts, and he follows only a few of them himself, so it's lovely that he also follows mine, despite the fact that it's inactive now.
There, now you know about all my IG accounts.
But, my problem was that I had two accounts. One personal, and one Johannes fan account. On the fan account, I follow quite a bit of skiing stuff, but I don't follow random people back from it. I did in the beginning, though, so there might be some "randoms" on there still - either because I forgot to remove them, or because they post stuff I like to see, even if it's not fanstuff. This season I haven't been updating that account, though, so it's mostly just "there" - I don't look at it that much.
Then, there is my personal account. I keep it locked because of the personal stuff on it, but I also follow various stuff from it - friends, artistic instagrammers I like, athletes I admire, random interesting things. Yet, I'm also kind of nervous to comment and follow non-famous people with it, because I don't want to accept following requests from people I don't know outside of IG, and I kind of don't want to have random people on there as long as there are photos of me there. So, for that reason it's pretty clear that I need a non-private IG for the kind of stuff I don't mind sharing openly, and for following stuff, too.
Well, last night I cleaned up the personal account. I archived the dark poetry posts and the sports fangirling, so what's left now is the actual personal stuff. Then I unfollowed all the arts and famous people stuff, so that only friends remain. I also put my real first name in the account name (username is still the same as it was, though). The account is of course still private. If I had you friended, you're still friended now, so you probably would not even notice any changes if I had not mentioned it here. The only change might be that I'll end up posting even less than I already did, and probably only if I'm travelling, or very rarely if I take some interesting photo of something that is happening around me.
Finally, I also have an open account here: FireAndRain19.
I might not post THAT much on there either, but I feel like it's a good thing to have an account from which I can comment freely, without directing attention to the real me. I haven't even followed a lot of stuff yet, but I'll probably add back much of what I removed from the personal account. Of course I'll also be happy to add you from this account, so feel free to add me - and drop a note to say who you are if that's not obvious from your username.
Also, I won't fill up your feed with endless posts from this account either. There might be occasional outbursts of love related to sports or music, or perhaps a bit of thoughtful/dark text/poetry - kind of like the stuff I archived on the other account, I guess. However, IG is not the first place that falls into my head when I want to post something, so it's not like I'm gonna get much more active than I were in the first place.
At least now there is a public and a private account. And my Johannes fan account is... still on hiatus, because I don't feel like updating every time there are news these days. I kind of feel that running a fan account requires doing a proper job with updating regularly, and I just don't feel like posting in that way at the moment, so for me it feels better to just keep the account on indefinite hiatus. I did find out when I logged into the account yesterday that... Johannes himself follows it since about September 2018, so my heart kind of did a leap at that. There are tons of fan accounts, and he follows only a few of them himself, so it's lovely that he also follows mine, despite the fact that it's inactive now.
There, now you know about all my IG accounts.
