Hi blender community, im been 3d artist for almost 10years and my sharing art usually on social media like facebook, instagram. Recent months i having really bad depression and anxiety and reading about delete social media by cal newport from the book called deep work.
Have anyone here have no social media, how you guys handle sharing art, business and other without social media.
Also â be aware that âdepressionâ just might be a clinical disease, and it can in fact be caused by all sorts of things. (I once knew a person who was allergic to broccoli, and it has profound mental(!) effects on him. Go figger âŚ) Nutritional deficiencies and other dietary issues can also be a cause. (A good mental health practitioner will explore these possibilities thoroughly first. Donât assume that treatment means âzombie drugs.â)
Mental illlnesses can be very insidious, since by their nature they interfere with their own treatment: âyouâre on the inside looking out, and so is the disease.â Your brain is a fantastically complex electrochemical contraption, ruled by potent chemicals measured in micrograms, and it can play nasty tricks on you â causing needless suffering (or, inconvenience âŚ) simply because you didnât know to consider that angle.
Maybe you are simply âin a bad moodâ and everythingâs just fine, but, âforewarned is forearmed.â Knowledge is Power. âAm I, in fact, right now, âthinking clearly?ââ
P.S.: Yes, I have volunteered for many hours on suicide prevention hotlines ⌠it is an indescribable experience, which I wonât describe here.
Even if you delete your account your works might live on if people have downloaded them or sharing them.
Another aspect by studying brain books, is that I have learnt, that you can consider that a personâs brain evolves in stages. A brain of an infant is constantly absorbing information and setting up the initial wiring. Another case is that a brain of a kid by the age of 13 starts a huge transformation into becoming a teen. Then the âteen spiritâ is retained up until the 25-28+ and by 30-40+ the senior personality traits start to kick in, and so goes on.
Intuitively all people consider that âbrain ageingâ is a linear process, where each year adds up one xp point. However is not like this. When the next stage I mentioned earlier kicks in, the brain goes into a full-scale-rewiring rather than simply add one xp point.
Perhaps we all have heard of the ârebelious teenâ phase, or the âmid life crisisâ everybody talks about. This is a classic case of âfull-scale-rewiringâ rather than simply people who do associate a mental state with a âtwitter hashtagâ. Perhaps full-scale rewiring happens due to life turning events but for the most part is due to genetic-cell-timing.
This rewrite I talk about is not pretty and is not good but it happens. As part of life, all we can do is to consider it as something that is normal in a sense that it will not hinder or block our progress. Perhaps we can go through such phases, and consider that for a few weeks days we might feel crap, for a few other days we might feel energetic and fun. Everything is in.
P.S. About books on the brain there are lots of them. I have read from âAndrew Hunt: Pragmatic Learning and Thinkingâ, Ray Kurtzweil goes into a more cybernetic turn because he is a technologist, âRichard Dawkins: Selfish Geneâ, âRobert Greene: Masteryâ⌠Still many more books left to go.
Speaking directly to the sharing issue â there are of course a number of sites, Dropbox being among the most well-known, that allow you to share files.
I donât use social media at all: I have no Facebook account, have never âtweeted,â and so on. It is not ânecessaryâ to waste time with these things at all ⌠and thatâs exactly what I consider them to be: a tremendous waste of time.
i hate social media. i donât use any and i am doing just fine. life is possible without, you know! 
I recently read Cal Newportâs other book Digital Minimalism after seeing his TED Talk and Iâve cut way down on my social media usage. There is plenty of evidence social media is not a healthy way to interact with others, as it takes up a lot of time but doesnât replace real connection. If youâre an artist thatâs suffering from depression, Iâd encourage you to step away for the most part. I donât mind forums as much and I still use artstation, but itâs a resource reference instead of something to just browse.
I hope you get through whatever is going on, best of luck to you!
Now, plinking away on BA Forums? Now, thatâs different! 
Thank you for reply, i been off about social a week now, been good. i think about how able to show case my artwork without social media.
yes, i think a forum like this one is different to facebook & co even if forum software recently seems to get more and more features i donât like.
I was an active social media aficionado for years. Being a former news cartoonist, social media allowed me to keep joking about current affairs and other things, and to promote my work as well.
I had 5000 Facebook âfriendsâ, which is the maximum amount an non-VIP can have at Facebook. I spent around a few hours a day on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Gradually I realized that social media was causing unwanted emotions to arise. For example, I started to dislike people I know in real life just because they never liked my posts or never replied to them. I also got more and more tired of all the boring chatter and pathetic attention addiction (including my own).
If youâre prone to depression and/or anxiety, social media can mess with your mood if you spend a lot of time there. Itâs good to be aware and stay aware of that.
Personally, Iâve (fully) deleted my Facebook and Instagram accounts. I already didnât use Whatsapp, so Iâve completely banned the Zuckerberg data empire from my digital life. Iâve kept my Twitter account because I follow a lot of Blenderheads and other interests of mine there.
Finally, as others have already mentioned, Blender Artists is a pleasant communication platform, because it brings people with the same interest together, allows us to gain new knowledge and help other Blender users.
I think social media from today and in the future, there will be more and more AI false users , and there will be more and more media content built by AI , even digital art, and it will be more and more difficult to tell which content is produced by human, which content is produced by AI, just be used to it.
Yep, thatâs another growing issue. 
Keep in mind, bashing on social media is in fashion. If you have mental problems, cutting out social media probably isnât going to fix them.
Also, âdeep workâ isnât about cutting out social media, itâs about cutting out distractions - social media being just one of them.
Having said that, hereâs my take on social media:
Most people use social media to display a better life than they actually live to people that donât actually care - but do it likewise. At best, this is a waste of time, at worst it causes people who feel like they donât âmeasure upâ to feel bad.
For artists and other professionals, itâs all a bit different. A social media presence can be valuable. Just treat it like another portfolio platform: Cut out the bullshit, post stuff that is interesting. Donât post your food, your pets or your WIPs (unless youâre explaining a workflow).
I also believe you should be separating personal from professional. If you personal presence is not part of your actual social life, just delete it.
Deep Work may not be about cutting out social media, but Newportâs other book Digital Minimalism is exactly about that, and worth a read.
I agree with you generally about users trying to convey a better life than they lead on social media. I also agree getting off social media wonât completely fix mental health issues. But I think deleting it would go a long way to helping someone who does have them.
Social media is designed to addict you to it, and like you said, make others who feel they donât âmeasure upâ to feel bad (and thus attempt to make their own life look better by giving whatever platform theyâre on more content). I think this is the important point, as shame tends to play a large part in mental health.
Good point about separating personal and professional too. The only thing Iâve ever found of use on social media is finding artists to follow, though even that results in time wasted.
Social media is a shrewd application of crowd psychology. You perceive that you are part of a very large crowd of people who actually know who you are and who think just like you do. But this is actually false. Social media interactions serve to inflame ordinary social reactions and this phenomenon can be and is used for mass manipulation. It is also an egregious waste of time.
I regularly participate on forums and in forum sections â such as this one â which are of professional interest to me, and I try to give-back information in appreciation for the vast amount of information that I have learned from places like this. These interactions, as long as they âstay on-point,â are of pragmatic benefit to me and thatâs why I do it.
This is also why Iâve never Facebooked, or Tweeted, or anything else. And why I never, ever will.
P.S.: Thereâs no television in my house. There hasnât been for more than thirty years. But there are bookshelves on virtually every wall.
Hi, I donât have any account or any social media -except LinkedInâŚ
I have portfolio on cloud services.
When somebody on LinkedIn ask my for some interview etc, and I`m interest -then is time for me to share my workâŚ
so far i only active on whatsap (family and friends only).Maybe someday if i have my own studios i would create a twitter account #damnFlinstoneLife
