To ask what you would think of a colleague posting on social media?

I don't post on social media ( I know, I know, MN is social media according to some), and I don't understand why people want to document every aspect of their lives on it, but I really wouldn't care that you were doing this, and I'd be pleased for your weight loss and fitness journey.

No name change

Are you doing it on your own personal page, or have you set up a new page for the running? If you’re doing it on your personal page, I might unfriend if I find it annoying. Or just unfollow you. If it’s a “passwordchanges goes running “ type page, then carry on. Either way, who cares what other people think. If you enjoy it, then carry on.

If you are posting photographs of yourself under your own name it does seem odd. If you were just writing a report of your exercise and weight loss journey, would be OK. A blog might be better.

I don't think it's a good idea to expose yourself publicly on social media.

Recent name change by any chance? Why are you trying to make a point on the posts of others about what I said?

Just so you are aware, I’m terribly flattered than I seem to have inspired your attention but you are coming across as little unhinged at this point (and quite the mean girl yourself 🤣)

The easiest way to get through life is to not give a fuck about what other people think of you. Especially colleagues.

No - rolling eyes is something people do when they arent that interested. And if you get someone to read my second post to you (as comprehension seems to be a challenge) you will see that I explained.

Depends on how you use SM I suppose - I would never dream of putting my ‘journey’ on SM and therefore eye roll and mute those types of posts.
Some people put every forward roll they do and every bite they eat on SM and love to watch others do the same.

Nope, I haven’t mentioned it to anybody else at work.

So you didn't roll your eyes and then run to tell your colleagues

One of my colleagues has quite a lot of followers for her craft stuff on Instagram, I’m pleased for her & vaguely interested but that’s it.

If the woman skipping on Oxford Street is British but says she’s ’jumping rope’, that’s cringey.

I Googled a new colleague the other day and found out he has over 2 million followers on TikTok. I was a bit surprised but thought ‘good for him’ and haven’t really thought about it since until reading your post. It isn’t something I would bring up with him unless he mentions it first.

So what I’m saying is - I don’t think people will care much, regardless of how many followers you have. Continue posting and don’t waste your time worrying about what others think.

If it was something that interested me then I would look but if it didn’t I wouldn’t.

Do what makes you happy.

In that case it's nothing to do with your colleagues.

Rolling eyes running to other colleagues to tell them about it. Its very mean girl

I would say don’t over think it. If it were my colleague I’d be happy for them and support their page

It’s not cringe at all. I have a book account on Instagram with half that amount of followers and my colleagues follow me! Who cares, if they like running they might follow along and if they don’t they won’t - don’t even think anything of it!

Wow. You okay hun? Where was I nasty?

Can you filter your audience when you post? I do that sometimes on Facebook (am very old school) as I have a few colleagues on there and don't always want them to have a window into my life.

Though running and fitness is pretty innocuous. If people are interested they will look/like/comment. I don't think it's cringeworthy if some of them are colleagues. If they're not interested they will scroll past and forget about it 5 seconds later.

Much as I detest running, I don't see what's cringeworthy about a social media account about it, presumably aimed at interaction with other runners? How can you reach the acceptable subscriber numbers without going through the "cringe" lower ones?

I've got colleagues who have social media accounts about fitness, gardening, crafting and other interests. Never occurred to me to start cringing over it.

You wouldnt be bothered if you had a non cringeworthy number of followers?

I have a colleague who posts endless selfies of running and swimming so I have muted. It’s a bit dull TBH and she’s started putting photos on LinkedIn too which makes me
winder how much validation she needs from randoms… it’s all ‘ here’s what getting up at 5am to get in the sea has taught me about B2B sales’ and a selfie in a swimsuit which feels a bit weird but people can mute you.
So you do you. People can mute or unfollow. And if you need the ‘likes’ for some reason then you do I suppose.

I’d think ‘good for you’ and give it no more thought

My colleague has a running blog. I have never looked at it. I have no idea or interest in whether he has 5000 followers, 50000 or the only person that reads it is his mum. I assume he writes it for his own benefit.

My daily feed regularly has colleagues and friends sharing Hyrox events, challenges, training - I give a ‘like’ here and there and don’t give it any more thought, no idea how many followers they have and have no idea why this would in anyway be a factor.
Do what ever you need to do to stay motivated but don’t overthink it, a very large number of social media followers are bots anyway.