I follow a lot of crafty type people on Instagram for the obvious craft content. I’ve found in the last few years that a lot of political and social issues have come up more and more. Every now and then I’ll unfollow when it’s overwhelming or something I can’t get behind. Sometimes there’ll be posts saying a certain number of people unfollowed because of a previous post, and they are pleased to not have people like that following their content and I’ve gone back to see what I missed 😆 Most of these accounts are businesses which seems counterproductive, but that’s their prerogative I guess. When/why did craft get so controversial?

It’s a bit slow because we’ve spent so long chatting while deciding on the forum that we’ve got nothing left to talk about on the forum. I deleted FB ((but have rejoined in a really limited profile for school stuff) and prolly should delete my Twitter.

Yeah, it happens a lot on ones I follow too, particularly around Trump stuff. I have to admit, I do like it when it aligns with my thoughts on things… but bloody hell I’m having to rethink all this now!

Social media - politicising the unpolitical