Just as social media has changed and grown over the years, so has the advent of social media warfare. What used to be gruesome has turned into something more complex and covert with the use of technology. On social media, it’s easier for people to be singled out and ridiculed by the masses. If you are trying to be an influencer, and go against the grain, this is something you should know. People who are familiar with fame and social media are familiar with something known as a “Dox” attack, where an internet troll steals information that a person doesn’t want stolen, and then posts it publicly. Even trolls reporting accounts just to take them down is common places these days. Their opposition countering it by being more cryptic in communications, when talking about reportable material. Even regular trolls working together in a team, with different members in different located around the map, perform tasks to pull off these maneuvers making social media, more like a digital battlefield, rather than a safe break, from the real world.

Over the past few decades, one thing that has grown more and more in interest is the field of being a social media influencer, with it being the new forms of rock stardom. If you plan on starting any type of social media influencing your career, whether it be for a business or personal work, there are a few things you need to know. Starting any kind of digital creator career is very similar to other creative industries such as design, fashion, and entertainment. The same is true for what makes them fail or be successful.

The initial idea of being a social media influencer might seem fun and exciting, but it doesn’t have easy rewards. Being a successful social media influencer is much harder than most people know. The key to publishing anything in a continuous form, like eBooks or in a series of social media posts, is to attract people and at the same time keep an audience. When people are able to form a large audience, they have the ability to make money through advertising or sales. It also gives people the ability to be highly influential. The big issue with the internet media dream is the average person might only ever see the content being published, and not all the groundwork done to get the message to reach an audience.