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What’s one social media growth lesson you learned way later than you should have?
Posted by on November 29, 2025 at 4:08 pmI’ve been creating content for a while, and it’s funny how some lessons only click after months of doing things the hard way.
A few examples for me were:
• simple > clever
• long intros almost always hurt retention
• consistency matters more than “perfect ideas”
• clarity gets more engagement than creativity
• one strong example often beats a full listThese are things I wish I had understood much earlier.
So I’m curious:
What’s one lesson about social media you learned later than you should’ve?
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Honestly, I’m asking this because I still feel like I’m learning every day. Some of the smallest mindset shifts made a huge difference for me, so I’m trying to collect the ones I missed earlier.
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if the first 3 seconds are boring, the rest of the video literally doesn’t exist.. took me way too long to realize i was burying the lead in every single post.
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that you can literally just repost your best content from 3-4 months ago and nobody will notice..
you don’t need to reinvent the wheel every single day, just curate your own greatest hits. saved me so much burnout.
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I created an account for my dog and challenged myself to see if I made him famous. It took me a while to see which language was better for the captions if Spanish or English (I am Argentinean), also a while to learn about the best publishing time, the best hashtags, with or without emojis, 3 to 5 first seconds interesting, tell a short story, and some other things. Once all that was solved I reached 80 thousand views in a month and would have achieved more if… I did not repeat the same set of hashtags for too long (say about a complete month). Apparently Instagram takes it as spam if you repeat the same hashtags for too long.
All the sudden Instagram allowed me to enter only 3 hashtags and my views dropped from 80 to 60 thousand and declining because of that. I learned a way to bypass it but is not as efficient; besides, as I run my own account with the same phone, in my personal account I found also that I can’t put more than 3 hashtags.
Perhaps this is useful for somebody, and I don’t even know if it is the real reason but I was told so. My dog is a wirehaired teckel that plays with 3 dobermans, 2 border collies and a schnauzer, so certainly the reason for the 3### rule is not for inappropriate content.
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OP What would be a practical example of simple > creativity and clarity > creativity?
And also maintaining quality
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I spent way too long creating content for myself instead of the audience i wanted to attract
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