My real life is boring, and I don't think it'll attract the right readers. Any suggestion?
Laer Carroll nailed it. I added the following if you find it has merit.
Economics is the study of the efficient allocation (i.e. itemized list of who gets what) of limited resources. You need to find ways to get the best followers (i.e. ones who will buy your writing) from an already oversaturated marketplace of people looking for these people themselves.
I did an exhaustive search of literary agents. Most say nothing of having a public platform (e.g. social media presence to market/promote your own book to your followers and passers by your work). However, there are a considerable amount of literary agents who want evidence that you have such a platform in place. They want this in your first contact with them.
Economically, a public platform will help you: 1) land a literary agent (if your writing and story are great); 2) potentially sell more books (to your followers and passers-by). The question is, who do you want to cater to; i.e. what followers will buy your books most often? The vast majority of readers are women. This does not mean to exclude men from wanting to read your views and opinions. From here, weed out people who are unemployed. I'd stay away from things that might attract unemployed/underemployed people, or teens (making little or no money).
YouTube can be used for blogging (via video called Vlogs). Many people do not read Web logs (blogs) anymore, because they are visual people and do not like to read. If you could do both blog and YouTube, I think you would get a wider audience. Just re-iterate the same things, but have different ways of packaging it for video and writing.
I think the goal is to maximize potential book buyers, and using more than one social-media platform is ideal. If you do not have a video camera, or do not want to show your true ID on video, you can make screen capture presentations (via PowerPoint presentations).
In Introduction to Entrepreneurship, we learn of 6 ways to generate money (which can be translated into viewers/subscribers/followers).... Only 4 are germane for gaining followers.
1. Provide a tangible/physical asset to people.
2. Provide help/advice/information.
3. Provide guests with some feeling of feeling special through your brand.
4. Provide followers with access to people or things they do not have access to (this is correlative to club goods or a voucher system).