Social Media Blocking from the Viewpoint of a Blogging Veteran |

Ryan Biddulph June 21, 2025 blogging tips 🕑 4 minutes read

Timaru New Zealand

I have this way to communicate with people. I consider it to be just like using a cell phone. I call it X/Twitter or Facebook. That is the phone, the communication medium, where billions meet to chat.

My phone number is my user profile link. Your phone number is your user profile link.

When you use your phone to dial my number from your number and push your business on me or say something rude, I will hang up on your number and block that number to cease communication. Nobody in their right mind spends much time communicating with douche bags or jerks.

We get away from ’em as quickly as possible.

This is why the phrase “***he*** blocked ***me*** on social media” is so funny. Literally, the individual identifies with being a phone number, phone, social media site or social media profile.

If a steady stream of traveling salesmen and hecklers came to your front door for 12 hours a day would you open the door, let ’em in and be besieged by their business pitches and heavy criticism? You would not. You would build a fence around your property to block ’em early and cease communication. They would leave quickly because they know; they ain’t getting inside.

The Solution

Publish helpful content to social media. Gain trust. Help people who want solutions to their problems. Happy social media users who appreciate your truly helpful content:

visit your blog
buy your stuff
drive referral traffic
drive referral business
build your brand
follow your social media handles
offer you blog post ideas
add you to social media lists

I’m not saying that every happy social media user does these things but some do 1 or 2. Some do all of the things laid out on the bullet point list.

People who do one or many of those things become members of your blogging community.

Loyal community members amplify your blogging success.

Do you want to know something even better?

Taking this content-sharing route feels peaceful.

Critics pop up here and there; we live in a world of duality. But doing the right thing – being truly helpful – attracts appreciative people who value your practical content. Does it sound relaxing to surround yourself with nice people to succeed? Yeah. Does it sound like a square deal to only deal with a few nasty critics here and there? You bet it does.

Does Spamming Work?

Spammers can generate one sale after spamming 100 or 1000 social media accounts for 5 or 10 hours.

Does that work? Does that sound smart? Imagine spending 10 hours today pissing off people or being ignored by people for one sale. Does that sound like a dream life? Does it sound like freedom from time and location? Does investing 10 hours of your life to stress to get one sale sound like an effective trade?

Perhaps it does to you.

I find it easier to create content which drives passive traffic and passive income for you.

Building assets is easier than trading time and stress for scant sales. Most of the blogging world agrees with me but few bloggers deeply desire freedom. Most choose to punish themselves because unconsciously each believes deeply in self-punishment. Unconscious guilt is a nasty MF’er.

Anyway, I wanted to address the other folks typically blocked: critics.

Critics

Most possess some vague idea that critics secretly despise themselves.

Happy people do not unleash venom on strangers.

Earlier today here in England, an irate woman who had been waiting for approximately 2 minutes at the self checkout yelled out loud at an overworked employee at the grocery store. The critic tried to humiliate the worker who did the best she could on a busy Saturday.

The critical woman hates herself immensely. Rather than face, feel and look past the self-hate, she projected her rage onto a kindly person because 2 minutes is 2 hours to the insane who feel terrified to observe their intimately personal insanity, up close and personal. The self-hater is like the robots in “Westworld” but has no idea that her criticism projected onto others is:

unconscious
scripted
self-hate

Basically guys, blocking social media profiles aka phone numbers:

maintains your self-respect
gives the critic quiet space to observe their self-hate if/when they choose

But check out this kicker; their criticism is really a call for love because the individual is terrified, hates self but feels horrified to explore it. The unconscious reaction is projecting fear onto others even though it is a call for love.

Mentally see it as a call for love but hang up because they ain’t ready to receive it on a level of form.

Cease communication to let them go into a “grown up timeout”.

Let quiet time for them begin.

Proceed to help your appreciative readers.