I grew up being told that you shouldn't post anything on the internet you wouldn't be comfortable with your employer seeing. It seems along the way that bit of advice has been lost. Lol.
That's the rule I follow on social media for the most part, even on sites I can't link here because they're essentially social media sites that focus on sex and sexuality.
Course, now that I'm self employed don't have a real social media presence for my work, I've gotten a bit lax in some areas even in my SFW stuff.
Yea, I was generalizing. I was born in 95 lol and my parents were helicopter parents always reminding me to never put private information online...little did they know what was coming with the launch of Myspace and AIM LOL.
Back in my day, we didn't have social media!
(That not a swipe at you, just a weird feeling of being on this site long enough to realize you would have been in high school when I made my account on the v1 Escapist.)
But in my days as an ancient 32 year old I've had only a few social media accounts: here (yes, forums count), a site I cannot link, facebook (now inactive), tumblr (now inactive), and twitter (joined after tumblr decided to de facto purge sex workers, artists, and models due to the disproportionate affect it had on queer people). Most of those I joined and left in the last 5 years.
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You do now. This happened back in 2008, before getting involved with The Escapists.
Was it against the rules to ask your followers to join a site to vote for your work in a contest? Because that is pretty much a normal practice among almost all content creators. A lot of artists, models, webcomic authors, writers, etc. use their various platform to promote the contest and ask for followers to vote for them. I literally see these things a few times a month on my followed accounts on twitter. Self promotion is a major part of being a viable content creator regardless of what you're creating.