I have some 'splaining to do!
I'm alive! Well, some of you know this because I have commented on your blogs. If I haven't commented...It's not because I don't love you too! I've just been distracted...
Specifically, as it pertains to lj, I have been twittering. Yes, I'm one of THOSE. It's just so easy and I think it's built for the modern (read: short) attention span. It's so much easier to craft a 140 character tweet than to create a blog post. It's not that blog posts don't have their place. They DO. It's just that I haven't had time to blog a lot of my (mis)adventures and in the interest of sanity, I find it easier to just blurt random things out on Twitter than to let them stew in my head until whenever I get around to blogging about that particular subject. Also, Twitter has the allure of instant gratification. Mmm....
Additionally, I am on FriendFeed and find it soooo awesome! I see it as an on-demand social network aggregate. By connecting with friends who usually send me links throughout the day, I can bypass the e-mails and IMs and just see what they're bookmarking/digging/blogging/twittering/flickring, etc., all at once. I can click on whatever looks interesting or ignore whatever is not, bypassing having to say anything in IM or e-mail. If something is really cool, I'll mention it the next time I talk to them, "Hey, that was a great post you wrote." If not, I say nothing. Another cool thing is finding out that you share an interest that you've never discussed before. "I saw you bookmarked that article on bi-racial dwarf couples...I loved it too!" And so on. But you don't HAVE to share all of your networks. It's a pick and choose thing. You share whatever you want when you're ready.
So that's where I've been. There are a few things I want to post here in the next few weeks. I'll do that. Also, I have my photography blog to update. So much to do! And that's good :) Doing stuff makes me happy.
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