Grid bust! This is an activity that I have been looking forward to! We are going to destroy your Instagram theme. I will admit, my personal Instagram, and even my brand Instagram have a pattern to them. This helps with gaining an audience and capturing attention. Our brains like patterns and themes because they are pleasing. But in my day to day life, I am not trying to gain followers or promote myself. I am just trying to have a good time online. I am not a picture collage of myself, I am myself.
I have watched my peers painstakingly curate images and concoct the best filter and editing combinations so their feeds are cohesive and perfect. They even make separate accounts so that the posts that don’t fit their theme have somewhere to go. While I think that editing photos is an art, and I do it too, I think it is also important to remind ourselves that social media, at least for personal use, is not that serious. We can post what we want, and be our authentic selves, if we choose to. So today’s activity is to break your Instagram theme if you have one. And if you don’t, post something that makes you feel good! This is an exercise to ground us, and remind us that the outward image we portray isn’t all there is, and it’s okay to do something different once in a while. You don’t have to keep you #gridbust photo on your Instagram or Facebook forever. Just until the end of the 30 Days. And if it bothers by the end, archive it dude! But know you participated in a cool challenge. If you want me to see your cool Grid Bust photo, tag me and use the #gridbust. And if you don’t want to do that, that is cool too. Let’s Destroy Our IG themes, together, The Mindful Digital Native
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