Avoiding Social Media Burnout: A #BufferChat Recap

Jun 13, 2018 5 min readBufferchat

This week on #bufferchat our community shared all the best tips and tricks to avoid social media burnout. Read on to discover all of the awesome insights shared during the chat!

Catch our weekly Twitter chat, #bufferchat, at TWO times every Wednesday for valuable industry insights and to meet hundreds of other smart marketers and social media enthusiasts. Same topic, same place, just at different times – feel free to join whichever chat time works best for you!

4 pm AEST (Sydney time)

9 am PT (San Francisco time)

#BufferChat June 6, 2018: Pinterest Marketing

This week’s stats:
Bufferchat #1 (4 pm AEST): 15 participants; reach of 998,310
Bufferchat #2 (9 am PT): 74 participants; reach of 1,385,082

Q1: How can you structure your time to keep from feeling overwhelmed by social media?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 1 here!

Q2: What are some ways to give your eyes and brain a break?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 2 here!

Q3: Do you set goals or time limits around your social media use?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 3 here!

Q4: Do you have any “hacks” for avoiding burnout, like turning off notifications or using app blockers?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 4 here!

Q5: How do you find a balance between managing your personal and professional social media?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 5 here!

Q6: What’s one of your favorite non-digital ways to de-stress?

From the community:


See all the great answers to question 6 here!


Thank you so much to our awesome community for sharing such great insights in this chat!

Do you have any comments or answers to these questions? Leave your thoughts in the comments! We’d love to hear from you!

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