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The Former Friend Who Fundamentally Focused Bredemarket’s Instagram Account

Have you ever had a friendship end and felt a shift in your online life? A former friend’s actions completely focused the direction of the Bredemarket Instagram account. This experience reshaped the content I shared, and refocused the audience who received it.

Nap Time.

Those who were reading the Bredemarket Instagram account over a month ago may have caught my disappointment at something I discovered among my followers.

Or more accurately, someONE whom I DIDN’T discover among my followers.

“Someone I respect unsubscribed from the Bredemarket Instagram page. Not sure why or how I turned them away.”

So I “took a nap,” pausing most Bredemarket Instagram activities for a week.

But over time I remembered what Alfred, Lord Tennyson never said: ‘Tis better to have subscribed and unsubscribed than never to have subscribed at all. (I’ll get to the latter group later.)

Reshaping the content

Admittedly some aspects of my Instagram account could alienate some people. As I took my Instagram “nap,” I pondered whether to put the wildebeests out to pasture, and whether to consign the 1980s music to a garbage can filled with cassettes and 8-tracks. After all, the so-called “experts” say that TRENDING AUDIO increases engagement.

Maybe for the “experts”…but not necessarily for Bredemarket.

After all, any perceptive person who is interested in me and my 30 years of identity/biometric experience will realize that I would enjoy songs that are 30 years old…or older.

So I doubled down.

OK, maybe I announced my “waking up” with a Flo Rida / David Guetta song.

But pretty soon I was back to Thomas Dolby, the theme of the Law & Order TV show, and Tina Turner.

The National Bureau of Standards would approve.

Refocusing the audience

After I reshaped my content, I took a long hard look at who was and wasn’t reading it.

And discovered that I was subscribed to hundreds of people on Instagram who, unlike my former friend, NEVER subscribed to me in the first place. And thus never saw a word I wrote. Or the accompanying audio: David Guetta, Thomas Dolby, or “Royalty Free Music Background.”

Did you notice my use of the word “was”?

Like my former friend, I did a lot of unsubscribing myself, reducing the list of people I read by hundreds.

Because, at least on Instagram, I focused my energy.

Focus Your Energy.

This is Only a Test

Just trying to figure out what I would do if Meta lowered the handle on Bredemarket and I couldn’t post audio-enhanced conte n via its platforms.

“For a Meaningful Apocryphal Animation.” Details here.

Thankfully it’s not auto playing. I don’t want to go back to the 1990s again.

And this also covers me if my Spotify-hosted podcasting empire is reduced to rubble.

Is Information Easier to Find Today…Or Not?

I grew up in a time when phones were attached to the wall and not to us.

When something called a “card catalog” was an essential research tool.

And when the best way to learn the lyrics to your favorite song was to go to the drug store and buy the monthly magazine that listed all the song lyrics.

Imagen 4.

Not that this was necessary for ALL songs. You could pretty much figure out the lyrics to “53 Miles West of Venus.”

Imagen 4.

But for some songs you definitely needed the lyric magazines. Because the lyrics may not be on the record, and probably wouldn’t be on the cassette. And in those innocent days in which we didn’t yet do ourselves a favor by unplugging the jukebox—and we certainly didn’t hang the deejay—the guy behind the turntables didn’t know them either.

Imagen 4.

Of course it’s a lot different today. The phone, no longer attached to the wall, displays lyrics from websites such as Genius, music streaming services such as Spotify, and lyric videos posted on sites such as YouTube.

From Genius.

But is information easier to find today?

Only that information that can be digitized.

If it isn’t easily digitized, then it is lost…like the analog imperfections from a “33.” (A vinyl record.)

From the Bredemarket Instagram account.

When Meta Personal Accounts Become Professional

Originally posted on my personal Instagram https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM3KMPvvsR4/

My personal Facebook account is technically a “professional” account, and therefore has Meta’s silly weekly contests. I have the content part down, but I’m NOT creating a Meta personal AI bot. (The Bredemarket Instagram account has two.)

Wide Awake: Luna Marketing Services On Journey Perserverance

In the comments section of this Instagram reel, Luna Marketing Services provided this reply to me (in part):

“the journey is never easy…And while quitting is, quitting never brings results”

For the record, I’ve awakened from my Instagram nap, but still mulling over what to do with that platform.

The Club

After a short break I’ve revived the Bredemarket Instagram account. 

I announced the revival in a reel which incorporated Instagram licensed music. I’m trying to be a good blogger and comply with commercial restrictions, so the version below is a silent version.

The Club. The title will make sense after you read this post.

To hear the version with sound, visit the Meta properties: Instagram, Facebook, and Threads.

Or better still, think about the song I really wanted to incorporate except Instagram didn’t have it. Start this Spotify track, and when you reach the 1:20 mark, start playing the silent video.

davaNtage, “The Club.”