7 Ways You are Hiding on Social Media

It is surprisingly easy to be everywhere and not really be seen by anyone.

And despite the need to be visible to reach your potential clients, you may well be simply hiding in plain sight.

Social media has become a playground where you can pretend to be visible while doing your best to keep yourself hidden.

A close look at social media feeds tells the story of entrepreneurs everywhere who waging a war between the part of themselves that wants (and needs) to be seen and the part that wants to stay safely out of sight.

These entrepreneurs demonstrate immense creativity in walking the line of taking the action to be visible and throwing on their Harry Potter style invisibility cloak.

Before you decide that this isn’t you, ask yourself if any of these touches a nerve.

Holding Back

Have you ever written a post or video that pushed your limits and challenged you to express yourself in a new way and probably upset the apple cart? You knew your position was going to challenge everyone to think differently but while you were writing, there was a little voice telling you that “no one will see it anyway, so you are quite safe”. So you never quite hit the bullseye and drive home the challenging point of view.

The thought of “no one will see it” puts an energetic dampener on your content so people won’t engage. The lack of response makes you doubt your value, credibility and sanity.

Keeping Safe

Alternatively, you take that innovative, challenging, controversial post and share it with a group who you know will agree 100% with you.

You tell yourself that this is your ideal audience but deep down you know that these are your alter egos and the people you can really help are elsewhere.
You don’t get challenged which means you don’t learn how to hold your own in a bigger audience. And your lack of growth keeps your business’s growth capacity firmly in check.

Speaking Someone Else’s Mind

You want to connect with people so much that you speak about what they want to…