3160: Roll with the Changes
I know there's a line of thought that user-oriented websites do not compete with each other--i.e., MySpace does not compete with Facebook does not compete with LiveJournal does not compete with Twitter--because there's nothing that prevents users from joining all of them. In practice, this isn't true, because EVERYTHING competes with EVERYTHING ELSE, for a person's time. [I'm a living example.] I guess the thought process is likely that it's silly to close/declare abandonment of an account with one just because another is more interesting. This is true--I do think removal when there's no benefit is silly while saying, "Hey, I'm prolly updating at XYZ more, so look for me there instead of here!" is preferable.
[Granted, I've removed accounts, but for what I feel were personally-beneficial reasons...]
I mention this because I found that someone I know is on a website I'd never heard of before searching for that person on Google, and it looks pretty keen. It's another social networking site, but focused on a specific target group and so has that bit of a draw. [No, it's not "FA sucks but everyone's on it!", it's another site entirely, but the niche factor's some of why it seems successful.] I'd join, but I don't want to just join and have an empty account, as it were, since I don't have anything submissible, and I don't want to join just to have my feelers everywhere when that means I'm neglecting everything as a result of dispersing my time.
[which is why I laughed when this started today's chat, even though I'm on and more or less like Twitter]chirp chirp: Hax, are you on twitter? say yes!
Carolyn Hax: No!
[LAWL]
Really, my focus SHOULD be on my own site, but that alone is problematic because I really can't design a site well without content, and I don't have the focus to get enough content going. Yes, I'm working on it, but this whole "too many projects" thing means my interest changes from day to day, and my priorities keep shifting depending on what seems the most finishable at any given time. I mean, I've tried to get myself to finish a drawing every day, but it ends up sketching and clean-up and ink and colour are all chores on their own, so "ink a sketch" is just as much a finished picture goal for me as "sketch a character" is, yet at the end of the day I only have one piece done...
I either need to pare down to doing high-detail singles OR speed up and get whole comics pencilled--but which?! D8
Oop, my AC "maybe" turned into a yes =p but... I want to get this badge from susandeer ^^; and I have the Friday off [unless Thomas wants to go up for the day also, then whenever he can]--guess it's as good a time as any to go, and despite my misgivings I may as well go vs. not. Hey, life is short, why sit at home and be bored when I can drive to Pittsburgh and be bored ¬_¬
[j/k, I'll definitely see the sights if things drag on somehow, though at the bare minimum I will definitely need to find out where's good to park for the day, even if it's an hour's walk away from anything]
AAAAND since I'm going [for a day], I decided I'd better get around to scanning in all of my smiley book in the odd event something happens to it at the convention--despite the fact I risked it over post D= and got it back okay!--so all of those to date will hopefully be up here soon... problem is I want to clean them up, and that takes a while x ~50 pics = ::T_T::
Oh. And no, I won't be wearing anything [particularly] identifiable at AC. You'll just have to find me [or not] =p
[Granted, I've removed accounts, but for what I feel were personally-beneficial reasons...]
I mention this because I found that someone I know is on a website I'd never heard of before searching for that person on Google, and it looks pretty keen. It's another social networking site, but focused on a specific target group and so has that bit of a draw. [No, it's not "FA sucks but everyone's on it!", it's another site entirely, but the niche factor's some of why it seems successful.] I'd join, but I don't want to just join and have an empty account, as it were, since I don't have anything submissible, and I don't want to join just to have my feelers everywhere when that means I'm neglecting everything as a result of dispersing my time.
[which is why I laughed when this started today's chat, even though I'm on and more or less like Twitter]chirp chirp: Hax, are you on twitter? say yes!
Carolyn Hax: No!
[LAWL]
Really, my focus SHOULD be on my own site, but that alone is problematic because I really can't design a site well without content, and I don't have the focus to get enough content going. Yes, I'm working on it, but this whole "too many projects" thing means my interest changes from day to day, and my priorities keep shifting depending on what seems the most finishable at any given time. I mean, I've tried to get myself to finish a drawing every day, but it ends up sketching and clean-up and ink and colour are all chores on their own, so "ink a sketch" is just as much a finished picture goal for me as "sketch a character" is, yet at the end of the day I only have one piece done...
I either need to pare down to doing high-detail singles OR speed up and get whole comics pencilled--but which?! D8
Oop, my AC "maybe" turned into a yes =p but... I want to get this badge from susandeer ^^; and I have the Friday off [unless Thomas wants to go up for the day also, then whenever he can]--guess it's as good a time as any to go, and despite my misgivings I may as well go vs. not. Hey, life is short, why sit at home and be bored when I can drive to Pittsburgh and be bored ¬_¬
[j/k, I'll definitely see the sights if things drag on somehow, though at the bare minimum I will definitely need to find out where's good to park for the day, even if it's an hour's walk away from anything]
AAAAND since I'm going [for a day], I decided I'd better get around to scanning in all of my smiley book in the odd event something happens to it at the convention--despite the fact I risked it over post D= and got it back okay!--so all of those to date will hopefully be up here soon... problem is I want to clean them up, and that takes a while x ~50 pics = ::T_T::
Oh. And no, I won't be wearing anything [particularly] identifiable at AC. You'll just have to find me [or not] =p