Kenzie Kaye: dancin' 2 ma own beat

as much as i love social media... sometimes it can seriously attack your soul.

it's soooo easy to complain, criticize, or compare yourself, your feed, your pictures to others if you aren't careful.

have you fallen for the trap??

i have!

but social media isn't always bad.

it can be an AMAZING source of inspiration, business, and creative flow.

i love the GOOD aspects of social media.

and

i have to be careful not to get sucked into the BAD aspects of it.

because that's how satan gets ya!

(and we already know, none of us need any of that)

SOCIAL MEDIA = CREATING CONNECTIONS

i honestly love connecting with people through social media.

i have made so many friends that i never would have met before!

i now i have friends all over the world and in surrounding states that i have met through blogging and photography and whenever we are in the area, we get in touch. and i think that is SO fun.

some of my favorite memories of blogging has been doing collaborations with photographers and companies. i have loved working with them and getting to know them!

there are sooo many ways we can connect.

there are always meet & greets going on.

giveaways and classes to win.

and simply just liking and commenting and sharing their work with your friends as well.

JUST

BEING THERE SUPPORTING THEM

is a great way to connect with people and begin to build that connection.

building connections is a wonderful way to reach out and broaden your horizons, make new friends!

SOCIAL MEDIA = LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS... BUSINESSES.

like i said, the business side of social media is WAY nice.

you can reach a much wider demographic because of social media and the internet.

i follow many boutiques and small businesses on my blog and i love to support them!

because i know that stuff is not easy to do.

and helping get the word out about businesses that you love is a great way to use social media for good.

even blogging is a business.

crazy right???

there are girls who have blogging as their main source of income.

it's literally their full-time job.

and there's a lot of work that one needs to put in for that to happen!

(haha maybe one day i'll be able to get there)

but i think it's amazing to see/get to know so many businesses and people who are trying to achieve their dreams and be able to help them along the way.

it's way nice to be able to get your product/vision out to more people all over the world.

(that was not a thing over 100 years ago)

SOCIAL MEDIA = LET THAT CREATIVITY FLOW

guys, i LOVE this aspect of social media.

i'm the type of person who has to see/hear something in order to get the ideas flowing.

that's why i love social media.

one of my handy dandy favorite apps, PINTEREST , helps me with just that thing!

i love to get on and receive my own inspiration and vision for future posts to create.

there are so many DIY projects i have found because of social media and pinterest too. many hobbies i never would have known that i would be into if it wasn't for the ideas from other people who shared it on their social media.

i love piecing together vibes and colors and ideas from multiple things and making it my own in my own creative way.

and i love that other people can do that too.

inspiration can be a hard thing to come by sometimes and creative block is REAL.

but i love how social media has so many ways that we can get around that feeling of being stuck and be able to receive a new boost of creativity.