In today’s blog of tracking my media use I’ll be looking at how I create content. I’m not much of a publisher across any media platforms. Snapchat is probably my most used app to publish content. This is as I feel very comfortable posting there as its more private and I can choose exactly who views my content. Today, upon receiving a snap from a friend that used a bitmoji sticker, I decided to create my own bitmoji. This was a nerve wracking process as I was told by someone that once my bitmoji was created, everyone on snapchat would be able to see it.This made the whole process of creating my avatar very stressful and I was very unsure of my choices. Eventually I finished and had a character that roughly looked like me. I’m very conscious of what I post and worry about what others will think. I think this stems from my early days on Facebook when I was a tad too gun hoe and would post 1-2 statuses a day. This is because I got Facebook much later that everybody else I went to high school with because it hadn’t really interested me. So naturally everybody was very curious when I finally got it. I had some comments from people about how much I posted and what I posted saying it was irrelevant and boring. This completely shut me down and I don’t think that I’ve posted a status since (not that it’s very popular nowadays anyway). I hadn’t realised that this experience had transformed me into a passive media consumer until writing this blog and thinking about exactly why I’m self conscious about posting. I’m even shy when it comes to posting snapchat stories and generally wait until a night out when I’ve had a bit of dutch courage. With this revelation, I’m starting to think that I should come out of my shell a bit when it comes to creating content. I don’t have to go overboard but if I want to post something, I won’t let my fears hold me back.

Here’s my bitmoji riding a magical unicorn whilst breaking free from my social media chains