Scan and scroll, scroll and scan. How many likes did you get? How many followers?
Processing social media is now a regular part of our daily patterns of behavior. And for actors, it’s a valuable tool to get your work out there and connect with other artists and industry professionals. But actors beware: left unchecked, social media can start to chip away at your craft and career. Here’s how social media can keep you from success.
JealousySeeing your social media “friends” post photos from the audition waiting room or on set along with #SoBlesed and #ActorsLife can make you feel like you’re not enough. There you are looking at Facebook in socks and underwear eating cereal for dinner in your tiny apartment comparing yourself to a well-filtered image of your Facebook friend next to the steady-cam operator. Then that negative voice inside your head starts to pipe up. It compares you to the actors you see on social media. All of a sudden you’re paralyzed with feelings of inadequacy that prevent forward motion as an actor. Worthlessness sets in and you start to believe that you won’t succeed.
But most often it’s comparing the worst parts of your life with the best parts of
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