Showing posts with label social networking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networking. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Powering Down

As someone who has a blogger account, a twitter account, a facebook account, a last.fm account, a ping account, more than one myspace account, a xanga account, a purevolume account (if I remember correctly), a youtube account, and now a tumblr account - I can safely admit to spending some of my free time dedicated to the social networking on the web. This, here, marks the 465th post to this blog alone.

I am trying to make some changes.  No I am not giving up or closing those (more recent) accounts.  I am also not going to pretend like I will be disconnected from the web. Hell, I have to use this very computer all day long at my office. Instead, my goal will be to keep this computer turned off at all other times, unless absolutely necessary.  I spend far too many hours surfing the web mindlessly every night.  Surely the internet is a place of endless information and much can be gained from reading it hours a night, but who of us really does that?

I will most likely continue to tweet. I may occasionally post to my new tumblr as both of these things can be done via my phone and takes no time at all. This blog, however, may stand still for a little while.  If I can figure out an easy and timeless way to still post a daily picture from my phone, then I will do so. Otherwise, if you are interested, check out my tumblr.

For the next 30 days, my life online will be reduced to the work day. I have set too many goals (gym, yoga, reading, writing) that seem to always come second to sitting on my couch with my laptop in my lap. Hopefully, this change will help bring change to those goals that are collecting dust.

*Disclaimer: despite having all of those accounts, very few are still in use. I just never delete anything.

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Tumblr, Integration, What's Next

So I started a Tumblr.  I wanted to know and understand the site, it's functionality, and a few other things before making a decision on whether or not I would make the switch.  It is a really cool place.  There is more design differentiation (which can be a downfall - myspace-) which I am currently enjoying.  In addition, it seems to be a bit more sleek when it comes to its user interface.

Unfortunately, there is not integration option.  I could slowly work on reposting each post from here, and back dating it.  Maybe if I really love it enough to abandon this then I will.  For now I think I will use the microblogging feature of tumblr which mirrors but is a bit more extensive than what twitter allows.  I will still use blogger for my Breadcrumb project as well as writing anything more extensive.

Maybe I get myself involved in too many of these sites.