The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Billy @ Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the hop on February 15, 2013. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end the following Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to their own blog.
Question:
What social media sites do you visit? Please leave your links so we can follow.
(submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver’s Reviews)
Answer:
I am on Twitter and Instagram. On Twitter, I am @TPulyer and on Instagram, you can find me @TessaTalksBooks
I started my Twitter account first, around the same time as I started the blog, and for about a year, I really focused on gaining a follower base. It is actually a lot of work, participating in follow trains, participating weekly in a 7am writers group (which ended changing times), learning to manage followers (I use an app to keep me on top of changes), chat, chat, and chatting some more. Once I reached 5,000 followers, I stopped actively working at it and now it is just growing naturally.
Then, I started an Instagram account last fall. I have been letting my follower base happen naturally with Instagram too. I am almost at 800 followers, and I should be at 1000 before summer ends. Taking pictures can be a lot of work, but I enjoy the creativity behind it and being able to use that part of my brain.
I do not use Facebook in conjunction with my blog. I just have a personal account that is locked up tight to prevent my students from finding it. Explaining to them that it is unethical for a counselor to friend a student on a personal account is difficult for them to understand. So I just make it hard to find. Instagram keeps making me a Tessa Talks Books Facebook account, though, and I keep deleting it – minor frustration.
13 responses to “Book Blogger Hop | Social Media and Book Blogs”
Already follow over on Instagram, always such lovely book photos. Have just followed over on my new blog twitter 🙂
My post ~ https://complexchaos.blog/2020/05/29/book-blogger-hop-29th-may-2020/
Aww…thank you! Glad to see you on Twitter too ❤️
Just followed you on Instagram!!
Love your collage…there are some AWESOME reads in those photos. THANKS for sharing.
Happy Friday!!
Thank you! I have been lucky lately with some great reads 😊
I enjoy both Twitter and Instagram but I’ve been really lax with the latter for months now. And Twitter I go hot and cold with. I really do enjoy it, I just need to work in the time to devote to it.
I’ve never been a fan of Facebook and closed my account almost two years ago. I just wish I had more time to devote to Social Media.
And although it isn’t as much a social platform as the others, I really love Book Bub.
Social media is a time sucker for sure. I am really bad at spending the time I should on it. I’m too busy reading. 🤣
I’ve posted reviews on BookBub but I haven’t really looked at the social platform aspect of it. Maybe I’ll have to take a closer look.
It’s a great program, Tessa. I hope more reviewers and authors use it.
Oh… I just followed you on Instagram. But… I don’t get Instagram, really!
I just take what I hope are pretty pictures and then harass my daughters with questions if there is something I don’t understand ❤️
Hi Tessa, I think I’m already following you everywhere.
Love your photos on IG, I’m not that talented or patient to learn. lol! I had the same problems with IG so I created a FB page for my blog. I’m not a huge IG user, Twitter is my go-to platform.
Thank you! Photography has been a hobby of mine of and on for years. I’d be lost without my daughters’ help with some of the finer details of IG but mostly I just float along. Lol.
Facebook wants you. I have a Facebook page and account but on my mother’s name so none of my friends are on it. Twitter is slow going. I have no idea about trains and 7am things. Insta is a sloth. I don’t post much, it too doesn’t like me much. We barely tolerate each other
Social media is definitely a beast ❤️