It will come to a surprise to nobody that when school is in session, or midterms, or the due dates of papers roll around, I am not as active online with Blythe as I normally am. The magic of posting regularly occurs due to scheduling of posts in advanced. For instance, I wrote most of this post back in March during my week-long reading break from school. Part of me being away from online Blythe activities includes spending a bit less time on the doll forums and the Facebook groups related to Blythe.  And now that I’m done finals, I have more time to devote to Blythe, despite my online coursework.

And truth be told, I have no clue how I ended up in most of the doll-related Facebook groups. I think someone added me to them, and then my newsfeed just becomes flooded with ads for dolls available for ‘adoption’, or Etsy shop updates.

I know a lot of people prefer Facebook for dolly updates… I am not one of those people. I tend to prefer to keep the worlds separate. There’s a reason why I joined doll-specific forums instead of seeking out the existence of Blythe Facebook groups back when I started in the hobby in 2009. Facebook is where I interact with friends, family and classmates. Doll forums (like This is Blythe and Blythe Kingdom) are were I interact with dolly people, and it’s nice and contained in its own part of the internet. There was no overlap. That ended when I started interacting with doll people in Real Life. I added a few here and there on Facebook, then people started adding me to Facebook groups and the rest, as they say, is history.

I’ve recently begun the process of removing myself from some Blythe Facebook groups. It’s just overwhelming sometimes to log in and see nothing by dolls all over Facebook. As someone who doesn’t have the funds to buy dolls right now, I really don’t need to see “for adoption” posts all day, every day. Nor do I need to see everyone’s sundries posts being bumped every hour (or so it seems). That’s why going onto forums like Blythe Kingdom is a lot better for me – it allows me to use Facebook to interact with other people (e.g. classmates, relatives) and it’s more self-contained in a way. And forums are great in a way that it’s a lot easier to search for old posts. On Facebook, posts are constantly being buried or bumped, if I see it once, I’m never going to see it again with the fast pace speed of how Blythe groups change. If I want to see what dolls are for sale, I can! If I don’t want to see any of that, I can just flat out avoid going onto that section (which I can’t though, as a moderator).

Do you prefer looking at Blythe stuff (information, sales posts, etc.) on Facebook or forums?