Splitting My Time

The online world can certainly stretch one thin.   

While getting my work done during the day -- though I am sure that may come as a surprise to some of my online friends -- there seems to be a lot of flipping around.  Of course, there's this blog -- which has become the old warhorse of sorts -- but otherwise it's Twitter, Facebook, Plurk, and Flickr that are competing for my attention... or at times, trying to breakdown my very breakdown-able self-discipline.  (Sidenote: there is a whole discussion whether all this is leading to the death of blogging, but that's best saved for another post.)

While it certainly can (and occasionally does!) get all out of hand, for the most part I manage to keep a pretty good balance.  The ping.fm site/service allows me to post my little status updates to all three (or any combination) of the "social" networks (Twitter, Facebook, and Plurk)... and all these things have really helped to keep me sane (though admittedly driven me crazy on occasion!) as it fills the vacuum of lack of human interaction that results from working from home.

Each site has my own sub-group of people, but pity the poor folks that have to deal with me on all fronts -- though I think that may be just Jeff (that made me think of "Just Jack!" from Will & Grace) -- though Jen gets a healthy dose of "Ed overload" as well!  But it has been fun and these days there seems to be a sudden Facebook resurgence with a lot of a game playing (particularly word games, which I love), group joing (joining!  Thanks Jeff for noticing and having fun with my Freudian typo!), and general sharing. 

With my rejuvenated return to photography, have been doing a lot more stuff on Flickr as well... joining and submitting my photos to different groups. Flickr is my one online activity that I share with my family... thus it is the one place where I find myself doing some self-censorship... not that I am shooting racy stuff, but let's just say something like the photo of the Cockring bar in Amsterdam was something that didn't make an appearance on my Flickr.

In general, I have just been taking more pictures... slowly but surely, I would like my Flickr to be a bit more than just vacation pictures.  In further proof that I am the oddball of my family (who don't read for pleasure or eat spicy food or like to travel, etc. etc.), I was amused when my Mom asked "Why did you take a picture of that?" upon stumbling on to a few photos I took of our local TGIFridays restaurant that recently burned down to the ground.  So I just warned her that I was further exploring this photography hobby and to expect more experimenting and "slice of life" stuff.  Not sure she got it, but such is life!

So that's what I am splitting some of my time with these days... whether some of these things will ultimately fall to the wayside, we shall see... so if I am not here at W&C, I am there (or there or there) doing something else... and for right now I am enjoying each of them!

Comments

[Jeff]

Yay. Umm, "group joing"? I haven't group-j.o.'d in forever! Haha. :P

[Todd]

Jeff, that one nearly made me choke on my coffee also. Didn't know my boy was into that. ;)