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id="452d">#2 — Creating a second account is liberating</h1><p id="fe17">After a few months or years of publishing with your main account, you created an ecosystem.</p><p id="b8eb">There are readers with whom you communicate regularly, if only through the comments.</p><p id="09d0">It doesn’t matter if your main account is under your real name with a real picture or totally made-up. In any case, these exchanges you had with others created an online persona.</p><p id="6ae9"><b>The drawback is that it put you in a cage.</b> This online persona has to stick to its motto. Whatever the motto is.</p><p id="5023">This online persona has a style, a vibe, that is hard to change from one day to the other. I mean psychologically hard. Our brains aren’t too good at mixing things. We prefer to think in silos. (<i>See any big corpo for proof.</i>)</p><p id="74eb">Creating a second account would be creating a new silo and allowing you to start with a blank page. You’ll have the freedom to do anything you want.</p><p id="d0c0">Of course, after a while, you’ll have built a new cage. But it will be a different one.</p><p id="ca51">And you can always create a third account!</p><h1 id="6125">#3 — What about the future?</h1><p id="47de">Today you feel like your main account is useless and doesn’t get the views it deserves. You’re demotivated and want to get rid of it.</p><ul><li>What if you changed your mind in a week or a year?</li><li>What if the inspiration fairy stroke you and made you write brilliant articles in the tone of your main account?</li><li>What if the algorithm discovered your main account and promoted it three months from now because suddenly the topics you wrote about became trendy again?</li></ul><p

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3 Reasons Why You Should Keep Your Main Account and Create a Second One

I was discussing with a writer friend the other day. She’s having a hard time with her views and wants to reset her account. She wants to pivot it to some niche.

I told her it would be a big mistake.

I told her she should keep the old one and create a second one instead.

Here are the three specific benefits/reasons for keeping her main account and creating a second one.

#1 — Creating a second account is free

You can have several accounts; it’s not against the rules. And it’s for free, so why wouldn’t you take advantage of something free?

Imagine you’re in your favorite restaurant, and they tell you at the end of a delicious meal that you can choose any dessert of your liking for free.

Would you refuse?

I didn’t think so.

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#2 — Creating a second account is liberating

After a few months or years of publishing with your main account, you created an ecosystem.

There are readers with whom you communicate regularly, if only through the comments.

It doesn’t matter if your main account is under your real name with a real picture or totally made-up. In any case, these exchanges you had with others created an online persona.

The drawback is that it put you in a cage. This online persona has to stick to its motto. Whatever the motto is.

This online persona has a style, a vibe, that is hard to change from one day to the other. I mean psychologically hard. Our brains aren’t too good at mixing things. We prefer to think in silos. (See any big corpo for proof.)

Creating a second account would be creating a new silo and allowing you to start with a blank page. You’ll have the freedom to do anything you want.

Of course, after a while, you’ll have built a new cage. But it will be a different one.

And you can always create a third account!

#3 — What about the future?

Today you feel like your main account is useless and doesn’t get the views it deserves. You’re demotivated and want to get rid of it.

What if you changed your mind in a week or a year?
What if the inspiration fairy stroke you and made you write brilliant articles in the tone of your main account?
What if the algorithm discovered your main account and promoted it three months from now because suddenly the topics you wrote about became trendy again?

If creating a second account was difficult and costly, I might have a different conclusion. But since it’s easy and free, I say, keep the old one, just in case.

Don’t erase it because of some unresolved emotional conflict.

Keep it!

Thanks to the great servers of Medium, it will always be there for you, waiting non-judgmentally for your return while you frolic around the web with your second account.